If you find yourself up against a massive colony of bats in your attic you may want to contact a wildlife removal expert to help with exclusion doors and traps as well as proper sealing and cleaning.
Catch a bat in the attic.
The repeller should take 72 hours or less to get rid of your bat problem in combination with sealing most of your attic and using a couple other home remedies.
Toss the towel in a careful manner over the bat in a net throwing motion.
Bat guano poo carries fungal spores that can cause a lung disease known as histoplasmosis says pelshaw.
It s a fungus that people can get from breathing in spores in the air outdoor or inside.
Handling and removing the bat bats are known for carrying rabies and there are also other diseases that are associated with their droppings.
If on an eave gap a funnel is correct.
3 perform the bat exclusion.
1 home attic inspection.
The bat s entry point is likely right above the pile of droppings.
If you don t have bats in your attic here s how to keep it that way.
Look in places that the bat could hang from or crawl into such as.
Do two crucial things.
You must do a 100 effective sealup job with no mess ups and the exclusion devices must be the correct kind.
Remember you will need to leave a place open for the bats to exit through as the repeller works to drive out the bats.
Find the bat if it s hiding.
2 seal bat entry holes.
If across a large fascia board polynet is correct.
4 seal the holes clean the attic.
Guano piles are usually near the attic s point of entry in clumps down the attic walls near the entry and exit points and on the attic floor.
Inspect inside the attic to identify bat species and colony size and watch the outside of the.
On the back of furniture.
Photographs of various bat trapping alternatives.
Start looking in areas that don t see a lot of light such as an attic or a secluded room.
If you locate guano on a window sill or the ground look up.
There is no recognized bait for bat traps because they are so difficult to catch in the open air.
If you don t know where the bat is start your search during the daytime when the bat is asleep and easier to find and catch.
Some people use specially modified cage traps or boxes mounted on the bat exit points that gather them as they come out and some people also try catching the bats with nets affixed to the exit points and then they put the bats in a container.
This of course leads to the problem of what to do with the bats after you ve trapped them.
The process is complex because bats can enter such tiny areas about 3 8 inch.
They do generally feed on flying insects but trying to bait a trap in this way is almost impossible.
