Greetings, here in the state of New York there is a bat research lab
in or near guilderland,NY which is near Albany. we dealt with them
and the local health department back in the late 70's when we
found our first bat or my dog did, crawling on the kitchen floor.
there was a quick battle and then I put the diseased bat in a mayo
jar and took him or her to the health department. which turned out to
be rabid so my dog was confiened to a large run for 60 days. . we
found a second bat in the kitchen both of these in the daylight and
that one turned out to be rabid. so our house was shut off to the
public,imagine that no sales people for a very long time. so we
learned a lot . inside our very large old home . mostly in the attic
there was two variety of baths . the big browns and a smaller one I
cann ot remember the name. if you find a bat moving during the day.
stay back unless you are ready to trap it as most of the time a bat
seen in daytime is a sick bat. bats are also like Prostitutes they sleep
around so we found out. if you could trap and label every bat tonight
and return them toorrow night only a few of your tagged or labeled
bats will be there. they sleep around in a very big radius . I do not
remember if it is like 50 or a 90 mile area. . they are very beneficial
, the bats for controlling insects. another tip is bats go to the
bathroom on their way out and on their way in. so for instance we had a
white house with green trim to the trained eye those bats left their
mark on our house . if you involve a bat research group they will trap
your bats and it is a simple , like a tall clear tall kitchen waste bag
mounted on a wire rim during the day. when the bats come out at night
they fal l down into the bag and cannot ge ut because they need a
flight path.. You cannot really keep them all out. they will return if
they like your place. if you like off list I can send you more
information but they, the bats are very interesting characters. as for
the squirrels. I'd like to take the ones we have messing up my shed and
get them into a stew pot for some good stew. Lee
On Sun,
Aug
30, 2009 at 03:27:19PM -0500, William Stephan wrote:
> It's a long and somewhat dramatic story, but last week, we learned we have
> been colonized by both brown bats (somewhere between six and 60 in number)
> and gray squirrels. The exterminator says this is rare BTW to have both
> animals in the same place.
>
> The first step was to set a body trap for the squirrel(s), but it hasn't
> yielded any bodies for five days, so it's likely the colony or nesting site
> has been abandoned, which means the holes they chewed can be patch. As an
> aside, the exterminator says it's generally better if you kill the offending
> squirrel(s) since they tend to come back to favorite places when they get
> pregnant again.
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> This week, we're installing what are called bat valves where there's
> evidence the bats are going in and out of the attic which permit them to go
> out but not return. After this, all holes down to 3/8 of an inch will be
> filled in.
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>
>
> So, we have a lot of bats here, you can sometimes hear them at night, and
> though I guess an occasional one contracts bat rabies, by an large they are
> a beneficial animal in that they eat lots of insects including I'm told,
> mosquitos. Given this, my wife andI are thinkig about putting up a bat
> house, on the theory that if they hav a good place to hang out, they might
> be less inclined to want to hang out in our chimney.
>
> Anybody on this list have experience with this?
>
> Am I thinking about this right?
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