Skunks, a year around smell in Delta
The odor of your local neighbourhood skunk is more rampant during mating season, but skunks are permanent daily residents here in Delta, so it’s not just the local greenhouse producing marijuana. Skunks are always close but they might be more visible now as the youngsters start making trips out of the den. As long-lasting residents of the Delta area you can see them almost any time of the year. You are more likely to detect their odor during mating season and when the pups are being raised or whelping season. Here in Delta, mating season is mid-February to late-March; this is when the males are trying to attract as many females as possible with spurts of skunk funk, now I always thought that skunks don’t like the odour they emit but this may be different in mating season. Once mated the ladies withdrawal to their childbearing lairs and after about ten weeks give birth to four to six babies or kits. So it is possible that you may have seen momma out with the young kits and there will be more to come when other females that were mated later being to appear. The kits stay in their lair until they are a month and a half, this is usually when they can be seen foraging with their mother at night. As nocturnal creature there are usually out at dusk and back by dawn but the kits can be seen out from their dens during the day playing with each other. By the fall the kits are ready to head off on their own and the cycle repeats itself.
https://gogreenpestcontrol.ca/skunks-a-year-ar…d-smell-in-delta/
gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky BsF CPA
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/skunks-year-around-smell-delta-randy-bilesky?published=t
