Reply With QuoteBe sure to check local laws before doing anything about them. They are protected in some places. Your local animal welfare people will be able to offer good advice. Also, many old houses have a few, my parent's house is full of them with no issues.
... we had to get bats! Actual, for real, microcheroptera. The apartment manager says that she's had several reports from around the complex lately of bats getting in (they're older buildings and not always sealed up as tightly as they could be), apparently somebody drove a bunch of them out of wherever they'd been nesting lately and we became the new nesting ground of choice.
I like bats, in general, I just don't want potentially flea ridden, disease carring wild ones fluttering about the apartment at random.
Be sure to check local laws before doing anything about them. They are protected in some places. Your local animal welfare people will be able to offer good advice. Also, many old houses have a few, my parent's house is full of them with no issues.
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And if they stayed in the crawlspaces, the not-quite-an-attic area and the hollow of the eaves, that would be no problem. But having one crawl out of my room-mate's closet is a bit much. The maintenance guys are going to see if they can just block off where the little fella got in from (we suspect a gap around the water feed to the hot water heater). We've heard them in the hollows of the front wallspace for years and it hasn't been an issue.Originally Posted by sunbird
We caught the little guy last night between a towel and a pillow and took him outside.
A reasonable position and strategy. They are usually content to stay in the cracks, but yeah I can see not wanting them in the rooms.
"Being agnostic is all about the realization that even though there probably is some sort of god or creator out there somewhere, the human race is and will always be too stupid to find them.” Oscar Wilde (alleged!)
"'politically incorrect' (the preferred self-congratulatory term for the enthusiastically offensive)" Fred Clarke
Bats are awesome. Lot's of bats means no mosquitoes!
I can see not wanting them in the bedroom, though. I have read (and been told by experts), that you can put up properly constructed bat boxes and they'll move into them instead of your crawlspaces.
http://www.batcon.org/index.php/get-...bat-house.html
Yeah. I think if that happened to me, I might be freaked out. I'm sure it probably wouldn't be dangerous, and in fact might help with the flies, but I have no clue how to tame one, nor would I want to take the risk of it being diseased. Also, some species are just plain ugly. Not all bats look like flying foxes (which are actually pretty cute, but extremely large and I don't think native to North America).
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We're SW VA, not near any real standing water sources ... we don't get mosquitoes in my neck of the woods. I'm assuming that the locals go after the moths and things that we do get.
I suggested that the complex put up one or more of the 100 bat bat-homes, they're relatively inexpensive and easy to make if they're so inclined.
These are microcheroptera, the smaller insectivores. This one was a common brown bat, basically a mouse with wings (lose the chisel incisors and replace with teeny carnivore teeth). They -can- be hand raised and get used to having people around but that's about it. Macrocheroptera, the flying foxes basically, are larger, arguably cuter and vegetarians ... more like flying monkeys in some senses.
At least it wasn't Critters, like in that movie.
Yeah, those would have been bad.
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