Do Moth Balls Keep Raccoons Out of Trash Cans?
Raccoons are highly intelligent and adaptive mammals. Due to human encroachment on natural raccoon habitats, the animals have become very comfortable living in urban and suburban environments. Humans in these environments provide raccoons with shelter and food sources, primarily from poorly secured trash cans. Raccoons, however, are sensitive to abrasive odors. Fortunately, balls of naphtha–also known as mothballs–produce one such odor raccoons prefer to avoid.
