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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Look online and buy a bat house. Take it away from your home in the woods and they will all live happily ever after.
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Keep in mind that if you get rid of the bats your mosquito population will go up. Select has a good idea.
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Garlic.
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Call the Atlanta Braves.......they need a few right now. 😡
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susie: 30437498746907/comments/30437509371547
Garlic.
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.
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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.
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Use the bat phone and call the commissioner.
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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).
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We used DDT to kill them back when I was a lad.
Not sure how available it is now.
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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
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You done went too far. Bats are federally protected.
Not supposed to even block their living quarter until after migrating season is over.
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So are buzzards, but im not gonna let them live on my porch either!
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mike55: 30437498746907/comments/30437499951771
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 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.
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Mike Fink I loved your work with Fess Parker. You were the King of the River Men!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1SaJ_TnKk12 -
Flamethrower
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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.
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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.
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tnranger: 30437498746907/comments/30437530072091
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.
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.
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If you build it they will come and use the bats, um never mind wrong kind!!
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Have you tried moving?
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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.
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waltermoe: 30437498746907/comments/30437545113243
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.
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OK............ok..............just call Batman.
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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' 😁
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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
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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
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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.
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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!
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Lots and lots of moth balls
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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
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