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I have Bats. How do I get rid of them.
MikeFink
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Found out there wasn't a mouse plague outside our home, but the problem is bats, crapping all over the area below our gable vents. House is good. Nothing is perching inside but I would like to be rid of them. Anyone have any ideas?-Mike
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Look online and buy a bat house. Take it away from your home in the woods and they will all live happily ever after.
Keep in mind that if you get rid of the bats your mosquito population will go up. Select has a good idea.
Garlic.
Call the Atlanta Braves.......they need a few right now. 😡
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
I have not tried that! My wife hates having garlic smeared on her neck. I thought about a badminton racquet, but as poopie as they are, I might get sprayed. Ok , a moment of silence and back to the Serious Task at hand. Please.
I like 'em. I had one who lived under my big porch roof for 5 years. He ate a lot of mosquitos. Yes, I did have to sweep some bat doo doo off of the porch. Well, that is, the girlfriend swept it. That crap is premium fertilizer.
Use the bat phone and call the commissioner.
Place a bat house away from your house, THEN seal the holes that they are using to get into your porch(i assume it has a vented ceiling and they are living inside there).
We used DDT to kill them back when I was a lad.
Not sure how available it is now.
Brad Steele
Check Amazon for sonic bat repellent gizmos. Personally I wish we had a few more around my place, but that is just me and I am not the one having to clean up bat poop. Bob
You done went too far. Bats are federally protected.
Not supposed to even block their living quarter until after migrating season is over.
So are buzzards, but im not gonna let them live on my porch either!
We don't have them inside or in a porch ceiling. They are just "hanging out" at the peak of our roof. So far just in the back. There is a an attic vent right below the peaks both back and front. Just under the overhang.
Mike Fink I loved your work with Fess Parker. You were the King of the River Men!
Flamethrower
Forgive me, but this thread brought on a flashback. As a fresh-faced college kid in a mammalogy course I was listening to the head of the Wildlife Department lecturing on the uncanny skills of bats. He said that bats had been known to use their echolocation and agility to pass through a window fan running at 600 RPM without being touched. As he paused for dramatic effect, a hand shot up from the back of the room (naturally). "Doc," my buddy said. "We used to have bats get in our basement, and we would knock them down with boat paddles." It must have taken a full minute for the laughter to die down.
I had bats living behind my wood window shutters and I noticed bat guano droppings below one shutter and didn't know what it really was. When I pulled the first shutter to repaint it, four bats flew out, and I was on a ladder 2 stories up. That scared me so I was careful when I pulled the other 7 shutters. They like to hang on the backside of those shutters, so i stapled window screen behind each one and they never came back.
As a kid..............we used to play whiffle ball in a cul-de-sac at my cousin's house.........at night. We knocked those suckers out of the air with plastic bats back then.
Of course, I would never do that now.............but bat sonar ain't all that if they can be knocked out with a plastic whiffle ball bat.
If you build it they will come and use the bats, um never mind wrong kind!!
Have you tried moving?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
If it was me and their just hanging there under the gable, I would use a BB gun. But then again I have been accused of being a little eccentric In my approach to doing things.
I was thinking rock salt loaded in a .22 shell. I have a neighbor who is an old bat herself, that wouldn't spare me if she got a chance. I am thinking the noise repellant may be my best bet.
OK............ok..............just call Batman.
Bats bring back an old memory for me. When I was dating my future wife, I brought her to my house to meet my dad and siblings. As we sat at the kitchen table my little sister who was about 13 years old got up from the table. She nonchalantly picked up a two pronged barbeque fork out of a kitchen drawer and skewered a bat that had been hanging in a recess above the cupboard!
My then girlfriend (now wife) was a farm gal and became fast friends with my lil' sis' 😁
Over the years have encountered a few flying inside the house. The old fashioned broom seems to work very well when you use it like a baseball bat. i don't think their radar works as well on the broom. --------------------------------Ray
I laddered up and put a piece of screen over the outside of my gable vent. (Inside screen was still intact so nothing getting in the attic) Checked for poop and nothing, so hopefully that worked. Stay tuned. Mike
Some not all Bats are federally protected. We sit out on the deck and watch them all the time. No mosquitoes and I live in the woods.
I like the bats around here, and would love more. Gonna put out bat houses soon. BUT i do NOT want them under my porches either!
Lots and lots of moth balls
UPDATE!----- No more bats for two weeks. Finally got them to leave. I screened over the outside of my east roof vent, and no more poop to clean up.-Mike
Gave up free guano? I would've just put a oil drip pan to catch the free fertilizer. I suppose being that it's near end of summer the skeeters won't eat you up?
"Anyone have any ideas?-Mike"
Pellet rifle in daylight, shotgun with #8 or 9 at night as they fly past a pole light(more challenging since it's imperative to MISS the pole light).
FIL used to have a bunch of bats living in the attic of his old 2 1/2 story farm house. Couldn't get into the attic w/o removing a window 25' above the ground so I'd wait till they came out at dusk and shotgun them as they flitted in/out of the illumination. Makes shooting doves seem like hitting a sitting bird.
We have several bats come out every evening.....They are interesting to watch and sometimes I put a flashlight out to draw bugs. The bats will come flying through the lighted area after the bugs, it drives Martha insane watching them ! I was on the porch last year feeding the spiders and taking pics of them. I captured a bat in one pic flying right by the web. I saw it in the viewfinder and about jumped out of my skin !!!
Bat house get occupied about 1% of the time. Or less, nice marketing, no use to bats. While I like bats, and have tried to attract them, if I had to move them on, I would disrupt their perching site. screen on the outside may well work, if they persist, try spraying with ammonia.
I'm 77 yrs old and I was proud of myself climbing the ladder to screen the vent. On top of that I have COPD and a few heart stents. All I would need is a good whiff of ammonia and I'd be done. I wouldn't hesitate to shoot them if I lived in a rural area. Never tried jail food but I can probably learn to appreciate my own cooking before that gets on my bucket list.
I would be proud too, I am 76 and feared of heights, like over 3 feet. I also have a stint, ain't we a pair. And for the record, I would eat your cooking way before I would eat jail food again.
Again? What did you get busted for?
You don't remember? You were there...
Oh yeah.
I thought it was home rolled Prince Albert.