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Admin Greg said:ahhhhhhh! howd it get there? did u get it out?
jlevernier said:So, back to the bat, . . . What I thought was weird, this one stayed on the wall and didn't move when I turned the light on. Not normal. Then, when we threw it outside, it kept talking (chattering) like it was stuck or didn't know it could fly away. That also is not normal.
Does this mean I might need to get an exterminator next spring?
Will I get any more this winter before spring arrives?
--Jenny L
jlevernier said:So, back to the bat, . . . What I thought was weird, this one stayed on the wall and didn't move when I turned the light on. Not normal. Then, when we threw it outside, it kept talking (chattering) like it was stuck or didn't know it could fly away. That also is not normal.
Does this mean I might need to get an exterminator next spring?
Will I get any more this winter before spring arrives?
--Jenny L
jlevernier said:Oh, yeah, now the cats are spotting the wall. You know, watching it. Makes me think they know where the bat got into the house. If they are correct, it is a bedroom window if from outside, or a electrical outlet if they came in through the walls. ICK!
--Jenny L
friday said:Well, if the cats are watching it- keep an eye on it too. If you spot them going in, then you know where to seal things off. Try to wait until they are gone for the season, but if they are not leaving- you know where to point the exterminator. BTW- some bats are endangered- even here in Canada and the US, and are actually protected- so exterminating them might not be a legal option. You may have to just relocate them. There are ways to do this.
friday said:DO NOT wait until spring. Seal the potential entrances NOW. If there are no holes for them to inhabit, they will go find somewhere else to roost. But it is hard to say how EARLY in the Spring they will come, so seal things up now. They will be heading back to their wintering/hibernation colonies now.
friday said:That means that it was probably not a fully mature bat. Bats stay with their mothers well into their adolesence before they are able to fly properly. He probably snuck into the house through a tiny hole somewhere and couldnt figure out how to get out, or he flew in through an open door by mistake. It is actually pretty normal for them to be very still and sort of hope you go away when they are discovered.
I had a maternal colony in the trim beside the nursery window this summer. I was sleeping in the babies room on a particularily bad night for him when I heard them. There was a window A/C unit so I was pretty freaked that they might find a way (or maybe had already found a way) into the house through IT. So I whipped open the curtains and scared the crap out of myself because one of the little critters was staring me right in the eye!! The neighbour behind us had built a bat house but hadn't been able to get any bats into it, so he baited it with scent, I pried up the trim so that spot wasnt so nice anymore, and they relocated- to the bat house. Everyone is happy. They keep the mosquito population down too- so that is nice here.
friday said:I had a maternal colony in the trim beside the nursery window this summer. I was sleeping in the babies room on a particularily bad night for him when I heard them.
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