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Ask for Professional Help When Removing Bats from Your Home
Did you know that eating up to 600
mosquitoes each in an hour, bats are the best insect control there
is? There is little in nature more invigorating than watching bats
flutter about at dusk, occasionally “dive-bombing” the insects that
annoy us so much. Even so, very few of us are willing to let bats
make their homes in our homes, apartments, or other buildings.
Unlike mice, bats do not chew holes in buildings. They really don’t
have to! It takes a space less than an inch wide for a bat to easily
come in or out of a building. So holes to the roof or walls are not
damage caused by bats. Rather, there are more insidious risks of
bats inhabiting our spaces like: the spread of disease, the bat
mites and the structural damage (because of their urine and dung).
Ignoring the bat control (humane, live, professional) problem, it
will not go away. Bats will not go away. Instead, they will
proliferate and cause more damage over the years. Also, it is highly
recommend that you avoid handling the bats yourself. If you must,
please keep in mind that bats are legally protected! Killing them
can result in large fines. Second, two percent of bats carry rabies.
Bats mouths and teeth are very small, and a bite mark may not be
detected. Any contact with bats should be treated as a possible
exposure to rabies. If you exclude them effectively, they will try
to find their way back in over the next several nights (be aware of
windows that are not properly screened). Bats are persistent, driven
by instinct.
Even a professional bat removal (exclusion, extermination, performed
by a technician with years of experience, can result in bats ending
up inside the building or house. Also, remember some bats do migrate
- other species hibernate in their nest. Sealing up your house in
late fall after you think they've migrated should only be done if
the species has been confidently identified. Otherwise, you and the
bats will have a surprise next spring.
The most logical route to go is calling a professional pest control
bats company. A professional in this area will know just how to find
the holes bats use. He will then get bats out (house, building,
school, warehouse, attic) by inserting specially designed “doors” in
the holes that allow the bats to leave, but not re-enter. After a
few days, when he is sure the bats are all excluded from the
building, he will close up all the holes so that the bats (and any
other creatures looking for a cozy home) will not be able to enter.
At that point, the bat guano clean up (histoplasmosis, danger,
toxic, safe, disease) and urine and the control of the bat mites can
be completed, making the area available and safe for removal and
repair of any damaged property.
It is possible that your local pest control company does some bat
work 'on the side'. Bat exclusion is a very specialized niche - much
different from regular pest issues. To safely and properly handle
bat work, a company must work from ladders and/or manlifts.
Knowledge of construction standards and codes is important to
prevent sealing up areas incorrectly that allow a building to vent
properly.
By calling in a commercial bat control (removal, exclusion)
professional, the owner has saved himself the hassle and expense of
hiring exterminators, the risk of exposure of his employees to
disease, and additional expense of further property devaluation.
In the end, bats are wild, persistent animals. There is no
substitute for experience.
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