I have Bats. How do I get rid of them.
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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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?
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"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.
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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 !!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Again? What did you get busted for?
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You don't remember? You were there...
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Oh yeah.
I thought it was home rolled Prince Albert.
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