{"id":117289,"date":"2026-02-18T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:56:12","slug":"skunk-mating-season-is-here-in-pennsylvania-and-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117289\/","title":{"rendered":"Skunk mating season is here in Pennsylvania and Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WKBN)- The pungent smell of skunks are in the air because it is skunk mating season in both PA and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ODNR says you will start seeing a lot more of them, especially at night since they\u2019re nocturnal animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They won\u2019t do much damage to your property aside from going through trash or eating pet food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you spot one, you know to stay away as skunks can spray up to 15-feet if they feel threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Skunk mating season lasts through March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WKBN)- The pungent smell of skunks are in the air because it is skunk mating season in both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55687,55688,28,30,29,55686,55685,55689,38741],"class_list":{"0":"post-117289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-nocturnal-animals","9":"tag-odnr","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-pungent-smell","14":"tag-skunk-mating-season","15":"tag-skunks","16":"tag-wkbn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}