Why are there bats all over my suburban neighborhood? (Page 2 of 2)
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Originally Posted By lorazepam: I wish we had bats around here. I guess some kind of respiratory fungus killed a lot off in this area.  Probably White-nose. White -Nose syndrome My mom worked at a pretty famous Mexican freetail bat ‘nursery colony’ here in central Texas, and it was a constant fear that white-nose would get into the colony and wipe it out. They did frequent catches of bats (dropping a net into the emergence from above) to do surveys and make sure they were not infected. |
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Bats are great, provide a service eating bugs, etc. All of that is true - until they get in your house. If you're seeing them all over, it might be a good time to have a preemptive bat exclusion done on the house. We moved to the exurbs a couple years ago and had a couple run-ins with bats that had gotten into the attic and crawled down the walls, eventually coming out in the basement and flying around the house. They're welcome outside, but once they and their close association with rabies gets inside it's a completely different ballgame. In Michigan the young start coming out of the nests in August and they all start searching for their prior nesting grounds to rewinter in October. Since the exclusion on our house, we haven't had any show up again (crosses fingers). |
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Originally Posted By Praetorian55: Bats are great, provide a service eating bugs, etc. All of that is true - until they get in your house. If you're seeing them all over, it might be a good time to have a preemptive bat exclusion done on the house. We moved to the exurbs a couple years ago and had a couple run-ins with bats that had gotten into the attic and crawled down the walls, eventually coming out in the basement and flying around the house. They're welcome outside, but once they and their close association with rabies gets inside it's a completely different ballgame. In Michigan the young start coming out of the nests in August and they all start searching for their prior nesting grounds to rewinter in October. Since the exclusion on our house, we haven't had any show up again (crosses fingers). I had to have an exclusion at my house after 1 got in my living quarters. It was during the months when the young don't leave the roosting area so a permit from the state was required. The ingress started at a gable vent, they would roost between the louvers on the vent and their urine and feces corroded the screen allowing them access to the attic. I haven't seen any signs indicating they have returned but the roof area is sealed up pretty tight now. They installed screens on the outside of all the vents after the excluders were removed. |
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Duh. Bulldoze ball diamonds and ban baseball. Your bat problem will disappear...
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Don't get bit. https://dhhs.utah.gov/featured-news/utah-resident-dies-from-rabies/ It doesn't happen often. |
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Originally Posted By ICEAGE: I've been considering building bat houses and mounting them on the sides of my home. Wife won't sign off of in. Considering putting some in the tree's nearby off my property instead. I hate mosquitos. Bats are cool as fuck. @ICEAGE Read my post on page 1. Wildlife expert explains why it’s a big no-no. You don’t want them anywhere near your home. |
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Originally Posted By Aimless: I posted about this before. There are bats all over at sunset. They look kind of small. The area is 100% new construction. There are no abandoned building or barns (where there used to see them In NY. I don't think there are caves nearby. I don't think they're in the attics of new houses. Maybe there's a cave or somewhere a ways away and they fly here for the insects in the trees and bushes or planted here as part of the development? Tasty bugs. |
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I wish we still had bats around here. Back the the early 1970s, there were literally thousands and thousands. My area is littered with closed up iron mines and they would hibernate in the mine shafts and empty buildings. There would be hundreds of them hanging in the alcoves of buildings down town, and in any attics they could get in. Walking down the street at dusk you'd be getting buzzed constantly by them as they grabbed bugs near the street lights. Now you're lucky to see 2-3 during an evening walk. Supposedly white-nose syndrome killed them off. |