How to get rid of a bat?
Question:I don't smoke in my house, just outside. The past two nights there has been a bat flying around my front porch. We've lived here 2 years and never had a bat before. I decided to just smoke on the back porch....bats there too. I don't turn the porch lights on because of the bugs, just the light from the house shines. Why are they here now?> How do I get them gone?
Answers:
As some others posted.check for entry areas around your house.
We moved into a big farm house years ago (over 150 years old) and had tons of bats both inside and out. I was scared silly of them. My husband did alot of research and together we sort of became bat experts.
We sealed off their entry places and he built a bat house to attempt to move them away from our home. We located it in our barn. We successfully relocated them to our barn, which as we learned is not an easy thing here in Indiana. A professor from the local college followed our progress for 3 years and even wrote a paper about it.
They still give me the heeby-geebies when they swope around while I'm outside at dusk but they are a such a remarkable species. They eat tens of thousands of mosquitos every night thus a few less bites for us.
Don't be silly. They are fun to watch. It's like having your own little air show. The turns and stunts those little guys pull in flight are amazing.
Throw a ball at it dugh! Just playing, call a pound or something to go get it, you wouldn't want to hurt the little creature.
bats will avoid a light
they do eat lots of bugs but you dont want them too close
they may be roosting under the eves or your porch
you may have to call some one but I hear they don't like those ultra sonic things
that might run them off
Two words; animal control.
Here's the fun way...
Take a can of hairspray and a lighter. As the bat swoops, spray the hairspray in it's general direction, with the lighter LIT in front of the hairspray can. Obviously, it'll catch on fire.
Or...Another fun idea!
Firecrackers. Need I say more? Simply toss small firecrackers up, and it will assume they're small bugs. Poppers work well, because it doesn't really hurt them, but scares them. Oh, and you'll have fun doing it. ^_^
When you are outside you are giving off carbon dioxide which is how bugs that bite zero in on you like mosquitoes. Being a smoker you give off even more carbon dioxide because you're oxygen starved. Your respiration is like a dinner bell to all the bugs that bite.
So there you are attracting all these bugs and the bats see that as a smorgasbord. They fly around you eating the bugs. They are actually doing you a favor.
Don't worry about them tangling in your hair. That's an old wive's tale. Leave them alone and they will avoid you as well. They just want the bugs.
We used to get bats all the time. They love to live in the smallest cracks near the roof of your house. You must have a lot of mosquito's around, and being summer, you probably do like everyone else in the U.S. There were times when they would fly into the house. They don't like being around us any more than we like being around them. We tried hitting them with a broom or Nerf ball, but what did the trick was "Raid" bug spray; it disorients their senses. They quickly fall, we would pick them up with a shovel and toss them on the grass. They recover; didn't want to kill them being the official pest control around the outside at night. You just might trying the bug spray around the outside each night and maybe they will relocate.
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