How do you get a bat out of your house?
Question:Theres a bat in my basement and I dont know how to get it back outside without hurting it or anything. How do I catch it?
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while living on a farm in Texas while I was young.. My grandmother had a real old farm house with unused chimneys.. The bats I assume thought of the chimneys as caves.. Sometimes they would fly down and into our rooms.. This is how she'd catch them.. Throw a towel or pillow case or any sort of cloth, jacket etc over the bat, then using garden gloves (or something to protect from bites) gently scoop up the bat inside the cloth, then go out back and toss it up high in the air, or drop it out from an upstair window.. bats cannot take off into flight from the ground, they have to drop to be able to start to fly, so you have to toss them or drop them from high places... Goodluck!.. (dont kill it, they eat mosquitoes, tons of them, and help polinate our crops)
Set a baseball out on the patio. When the bat goes outside to play, slam the door.
Another option is to wait until day light, find where the little fella is sleeping and bag em with a paper (not plastic) grocery sack.
I was able to pin one in my bathroom with a soft broom. Then captured it with a plastic container.
fly paper, hang it up, itll get stuck and then shoebox it out the door!
lots of fly paper!! its how we did it..
I've heard but don't know it works... Moth balls?
I have a second house in N.C. and found a bat that found it to be home to him/her as well, when I went down there to do some periodical maintenance. I was told by the old land lord the best way without driving myself nuts, was to set out a cage, much like a fox, or raccoon cage you can pick up at a hardware store. Set it rather high, like on the dining room table, or on top of the fridge, if space allows. Place something small, and sweet for the bait, I used blue berries in a small bowl, place in cage, set trap, and stay out for a night. The bat will only come out, and seek the sweet bait they smell, at night, and when it feels totally safe, so best to just stay away for the night. My result, was the trapped bat, which I took outside, and let loose, hoping to never find him/her in my home again,lol. Hope your result is the same, but word from the wise.after getting rid of the tenant, dis-infect as much of the home as possible, for most bats carry ALOT of nasty little things with them, best to fog if possible too. Good luck.
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