It’s not unusual in lots of parts of the nation to see a small flicker of black here and there throughout dawn or sunset. However if you start seeing much more of those flickers in the dark skies than common around your home, that might be a sign you have a bat family and even a colony living on your property. Pair that with droppings found in your attic, grease discolorations at potential access points and the odd chirping noise, and you probably have bats. It could be time to consider bat removal solutions.
Wildlife Removal from Attics in the Mobile Area
It’s hard to imagine a nicer area for bats to live than in a cool, completely dry, temp managed attic. Wild animals need to contend with so much danger in nature, that a pleasant house like your own can be much better than a cavern.
Bats like to find little small holes that they can squeeze through. As soon as they’ve located a safe place, they’ll welcome the entire colony in! Before you know if you can have an entire family of bats hanging around in your rafters, eaves, soffits, chimney, and behind shutters. They will utilize your attic as a site to sleep and leave in the evening to go hunting.
If you made a list of every mammal with the ability to fly, it would have only one entry: Bats.
Bat Guano
The worst part regarding having bats in your attic (past it just being gross) is that those animals have nowhere to poop. That’s right! All that hazardous bat guano that can transmit histoplasmosis to humans, just goes down straight onto your attic flooring, or perhaps worse, your insulation area.
Bat Exclusion
Bat removal Mobile can be accomplished by sealing any entry points bats might use. This is known as exclusion. It ensures that bats won’t return to your home after they have been removed from their current nesting areas. Bat exclusion can be a complex process that requires a thorough inspection of all areas where bats may be entering your home.
Vents, chimneys, gaps under garage doors or under eaves could all be considered as entry points. Even tiny holes as small a quarter inch. After these spots have been identified by our bat specialist, we will take the necessary steps to seal them off so that no other bats get into your home.
Bat Extermination vs Removal
Your very first impulse might be, “We need to exterminate these bats!”, however, let me tell you: dealing with a bat infestation like an insect control problem is a huge mistake. These animals are not ants or termites. It is not legal to eliminate a bat like they are.
Bats are protected in most parts of the country, so make sure you use a professional when dealing with bat problems.
Trapping is less than suitable for bats because it’s tough to appropriately capture them like you would a rodent, raccoon, or squirrel. Lethal trapping means you are removing a natural predator for mosquitos, flies, and other irritating insects around your home.
Bat Removal in Mobile and Damage Repair
The absolute best way to get rid of bats is through a technique called exclusion. Instead of trying to draw a bat right into a trap, the smartest thing to do is force it to leave (which they will do during the night to go hunt) and never ever let it back in! Sound crazy?
When clients call us with bat problems in Mobile, the first thing we do is learn how they got in. Once we recognize the access points that these animals utilized to invade your attic, we establish one-way doors at those entry points. By doing this, when your bats go hunting during the night, they are unable to come back in.
Here’s just how we take care of a Bat Removal Mobile project:
- Invest a LOT of time identifying each bat entrance hole into your house
- Establish one way doors at each entrance point
- Validate that we’ve excluded all of the bats in your attic
- Seal all of the entry holes
- Clean all of the harmful bat guano in the attic utilizing safety devices
- Replace insulation (if required)
- Fix any type of interior or external damage
Frequently Asked Questions concerning Bat Control
Q. Should bats be protected in Alabama?
A. Absolutely! Bats are an essential part of the community in Alabama. Bats possess a heck of an apetite. They can polish off over one-thousand mosquitos an hour! It would be a dark day if we lost all of our bats.
Did you know that bats comprise almost twenty-five percent of all mammals living on Earth?
Q. What is bat guano?
A. Bat Guano is a different term for bat droppings. The droppings are little and can look comparable to rodent droppings. But, don’t be misleaded. If you shine a flash light on them after breaking the droppings apart (please use gloves!), you’ll see them sparkle or twinkle in the light.
Q. Is guano hazardous to people?
A. Be really mindful around bat guano (again, gloves people!) as it can transmit a deadly fungal infection known as histoplasmosis. You can inhale it just by being anywhere near guano, so we really recommend you let experts with correct protective equipment deal with an attic cleanup.
