How can I get rid of bats in my house?

Question

I have bats that are like little and black with red beety eyes that are about the size of a small bird and they have been coming from somewhere at night in our home. They are flying in my kitchen, bedroom, living room, well basicall everywhere. I can not tell where they are coming from and I have no clue what to do?

Answer 1

i am a big fan of bats and have been studying them on my own since i was a wee little thing. there are many factors to consider here: first of all what part of what country do you live in? this will determine the types of bats that you are most likely dealing with. most likely they are microchiroptera, or insect eating bats. megachiroptera (fruit bats)are generally much larger than the ones you discribe and live almost exclusively in tropical climates. bats are very good at hiding wherever they can fit. they like small dark places and can squeeze almost anywhere. attics, crawl spaces, cupboards, vents, etc. as far as trapping them, that's a tricky thing. baiting them would be difficult since your bats (probably insect eaters) will only eat live insects. catching them in a net would only be a temporary solution as bats roost in the same location all season. you could try using a squeek box. these devices are plugged into the wall and emit a very high pitched drone too high for humans to hear. bats have very good hearing and the noise should drive them out. another humane suggestion is to give the bats an alternative place to stay. try building a few bat boxes out in the yard. the bats should feel safer away from you (they are afraid of you too). also, having the bats around the outside of your house will keep the bug population down, keeping YOU safer from disease carrying insects.
p.s.
just a few more bat facts to put you at ease:
-despite what popular opinion might be, bats are not very common carriers of rabies for a few reasons; they are very fast and hard to bite, and when they do get bit by an infected animal, they usually die because they are so fragile. this is not to say that no bat has rabies, but it is rare.
-the bats will not fly into you. bats have an excellent sense of location and direction through the use of echolocation. they can detect something as small as a piece of hair from more than 15 feet away and can turn on a dime (their flight is more flexible than the most sophiticated stealth jet)

Answer 2

First, someone needs to look under the eaves of the house, and in the chimney to make sure there aren't ways of entering the house. Unscreened fireplace chimneys are one way bats enter the house.

Removing a bat is very easy if you can watch the bat long enough to see where it roosts. They need a ledge, curtain, or some other type of object to hang on to, so the possible places in a house are usually limited. You can narrow down the possible roosting locations by closing off all the doors once the bats start flying. If you are able to find their roosting area, you can catch them with a coffee can or small trash bucket and lid and let them go outside. You can try taping to the wall, near the ceiling, some small, partly-closed cardboard boxes, with the open side facing down, and fi they use the box to roost, you only need to close off the hole and carry the box outside.

If you can't find their roost, its much harder to catch them. You can loosely hang a fine-mesh net in the area where they are flying around and try to snag them in the netting. Garden sections of stores sell netting to keep insects and birds off of plants--get the thinnest, finest material you can find. If you snare a bat, wear leather gloves, and remove the bat by taking the net outside and cutting the net close to the place where the bat is snagged, and let the bat work itself free.

Answer 3

Learn the language of the bats, earn their trust, then breed with their women. And in time, your differences will be forgotten.


In the meantime, you may want to go about bat-proofing your home. Given the apparent number of lodgers you have, you may wish to get professional help from animal control or a wildlife protection agency, but not an exterminator. During the summer months the bats are nesting, and proofing your home will mean that any babies will die, being unable to fly. You needn't evict them from your whole house, bats live in buildings, but only from those areas in which you live.

Check for holes around your home, especially the roof and where it means the wall, and your garage, where bats could enter, and loosely hand clear sheet plastic or bird netting over them. The bats will be able to leave but not re-enter, but remember that as this is the summer they may be rearing young, and you don't want to find dead bats later on.

They will not drink your blood, and are unlikely to carry rabies, but get yourself , family and any pets checked and vaccinated in case. Do not handle any animals, but do advise applicable authorities to remove any dead specimens to test them for the disease.

Answer 4

They're mainly roosting for your attic and unintentionally coming into your condo. The final position they wish to be is within your condo with you, they only wish to get external to consume insects. If it is for your condo near all doorways to different rooms. Open doorways or unscreened home windows within the room that the bat is in. Being in an enclosed room may be very complicated to the bat since it throws off their sonar. It'll mainly fly round a bit bit then leisure for a even as however ultimately it'll discover the open area and fly out. Make certain that you just see it fly out tho cuz it is going to disguise someplace after which pop out the following night time.

Answer 5

Find out how they get in and try to seal them out if possible. They are not fruit bats. They are certainly insectivores that would not be easy to trap. They will fly out in the same way they flew in. There is a hole in wall, screen, window, attic, etc that they are flying in. They may chose to roost in your house in the day if you allow it and that isn't going to be good for anyone (or anything).

Answer 6

Lay out food for them. Basically trap them. They sound like fruit bats. They'll go for the fruit. I'm not exactly sure how to do that but... Yeah. Also, you need to go to the doctor ASAP. Bats very commonly carry rabies. The also tend to bite while people are asleep. So go to the doctor and tell him about the bats and they should take blood and find out if you're OK. It's probably nothing but just be safe, rabies aren't something to be taken lightly.

Answer 7

Contact a Nuisance Wildlife Control Professional. You can find one here: http://www.wildlife-removal.com/faq.htm

They will use legal, humane methods to capture the bats and relocate them.

Answer 8

Yep, tell the Mother-in-Law she has to leave!! NOW!!