What is the best method to keep bats from coming
back into my attic this spring. They have gone south for the winter, but they come back each year. The way my corrugated metal roof is, it would be nearly impossible to plug up all the holes...a pest control guy told me that they only need a 1/4" square hole to get through....so how can I keep them out this year????
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I tell you what, ECC, my girlfriend is going to buy one of those $240 strobe lights referenced in my thread, "Strobe lights for squirrels?"
I bet the thing will work for squirrels and I bet it would work for bats.
What animal wants a strobe light flashing in their face?
You could google it up and contact one of the companies that sell it, and you could ask them if it works on bats.
What we have in that rental house with squirrels is a fan that I wired up. I fixed an attic fan with a switch in a closet, which governs a receptacle in the attic. The old attic fan motor had burned out, I got one of these round floor fans from Home Depot for $50, and fixed it in the old attic fan housing, and set it on high and just plugged it into that receptacle.
The tenant there never uses that fan, so my girlfriend is going to plug the strobe light into that receptacle, and unplug the fan.
Switch the thing on for a few weeks, run the squirrels off, switch off the light.
If they come back, give 'em another week of the light.
I have read reviews of this light on amazon and elsewhere and everybody says it works great on squirrels and raccoons, I didn't read any comments about bats.0 -
Bats in your belfry eh? Screening will keep the bats out and allow ventilation. Nothing toxic you put in your attic to repel bats will be good for the people living below. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
I tell you what, ECC, my girlfriend is going to buy one of those $240 strobe lights referenced in my thread, "Strobe lights for squirrels?"
I bet the thing will work for squirrels and I bet it would work for bats.
What animal wants a strobe light flashing in their face?
You could google it up and contact one of the companies that sell it, and you could ask them if it works on bats.
I'm sure the bats will "see" the light and fly off screamin' in the night.
BTW, unless there were just hundreds of the bats, I think I would welcome the skeeter-eaters.0 -
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
I tell you what, ECC, my girlfriend is going to buy one of those $240 strobe lights referenced in my thread, "Strobe lights for squirrels?"
I bet the thing will work for squirrels and I bet it would work for bats.
What animal wants a strobe light flashing in their face?
You could google it up and contact one of the companies that sell it, and you could ask them if it works on bats.
What we have in that rental house with squirrels is a fan that I wired up. I fixed an attic fan with a switch in a closet, which governs a receptacle in the attic. The old attic fan motor had burned out, I got one of these round floor fans from Home Depot for $50, and fixed it in the old attic fan housing, and set it on high and just plugged it into that receptacle.
The tenant there never uses that fan, so my girlfriend is going to plug the strobe light into that receptacle, and unplug the fan.
Switch the thing on for a few weeks, run the squirrels off, switch off the light.
If they come back, give 'em another week of the light.
I have read reviews of this light on amazon and elsewhere and everybody says it works great on squirrels and raccoons, I didn't read any comments about bats.
Thanks for the tip...I might have to give that a shot.[8D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by matwor
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
I tell you what, ECC, my girlfriend is going to buy one of those $240 strobe lights referenced in my thread, "Strobe lights for squirrels?"
I bet the thing will work for squirrels and I bet it would work for bats.
What animal wants a strobe light flashing in their face?
You could google it up and contact one of the companies that sell it, and you could ask them if it works on bats.
I'm sure the bats will "see" the light and fly off screamin' in the night.
BTW, unless there were just hundreds of the bats, I think I would welcome the skeeter-eaters.
There are quite a few...and they manage to get inside the house occasionally...between the rabies and bat dung, I'd like to get rid of them.0 -
Good luck! During our first summer in this house we were awakened about 3am on two different mornings by something beating around above our bedroom ceiling. Both times I went up in the attic, but the noise had stopped and I couldn't find anything. About two months after the last occurrence the power company came out to replace our meter with a new digital type. The technician knocked on the door and asked me to come out and look at something, which turned out to be a fried bat behind the meter. Apparently it had exited the attic by crawling down the electrical conduit and when it got behind the meter it had a shocking experience!
We haven't had another occurrence of this, but I've often wondered it those Plug-In Electronic Pest Repellers that affect mice and other pests would be of any benefit in the attic.0 -
I bought a boat from a guy who had this problem in an old two story Farmhouse.He hired a guy to exterminate.Guy goes into attic with a tennis racket and commences to bat splat. 0 -
Stuff as many holes as possible and put up bat houses around in the trees. My attic probably houses 500 bats in the summer, but I don't have many bugs. Every year I say I have got to plug the holes, but living in a 200 year old house it never is one of the top priorities. 0 -
we used the bat houses here it does help keep them out of the attic and still get the insect control 0 -
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Those ultra-sonic gadgets you plug in to get rid of "mice and other pests" never ever worked for me. I'm not sure any of them work as advertised. Also, tack up to the studs several strands of that shiny mylar bird-chaser tape. In combination with the flashing lights blinking off the shiny tape, that ought to send them in to the bat doctor for therapy.
Try putting up some blinking Christmass tree lights in the attic. They don't use much power and are pretty safe. I don't know if you can screen up every little opening0 -
A buddy of mine just put a 100 watt light bulb in his attic and the bats left. 0 -
I believe the proper name for "BAT DUNG" is GUANO.[;)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
I believe the proper name for "BAT DUNG" is GUANO.[;)]
I was wondering who was going to call me on that...[:D]0 -
Bats eat around 1000 bugs an hour each. I would put up a bat habitat outside and use the sonic plug in pest controllers in the attic. They work better on bats than they do on other pests that don't rely on sonar to navigate. By the time they become accustomed to the sonic emitter they will have found a more pleasant home in the habitat. 0 -
BDjr is right. Be prepared for an enslaught of bugs once the bats "go elsewhere". Are they only in your eaves? Or in the living/sleeping spaces. If only in the eaves, let them be. People have put up bat hotels to attract them to their property.
Gotta be a reason in it. And you'll be enjoying bug-free nighttime barbecues this coming summer. Joe0 -
I have a couple of bat houses at each end of the house really helps with the bugs.We get rice flies here and the bats have a field day as the the flies swarm in big clouds.Is that the right word. 0 -
Gorilla's with disposable lighters should do the trick. 0 -
hook the stobe light up to a motion detector it will save you a lot of money 0
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