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Your dark attic is a real attractive place for bats to roost and create into a colony. Nah. Don’t think Batman. Batman’s bats roosted in a cave beneath his mansion, not in an attic of a three bedroom home in the suburbia.
Bats can get in through the small openings and gaps in your home so your best bet is to seal them by applying caulk, weatherstrips, or screens. Just leave one possible opening so that the bats can leave your home as night strikes. Seal the opening a half an hour after dark. If you can’t possibly seal of small opening without remodeling your home, try shining a light at their roosting are by installing a bright light. Another trick is to hang mothballs in porous bags (another use for old stretchy stockings) to ward them off.
If, by any chance, a bat finds itself in your home after dark, here’s a neat trick: open all the possible exits points it can have (windows and doors) and turn off all the light inside your home. The bat will most likely fly out.
10 Responses
Bozdemir
August 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
1Hehe, I’m lucky, I don’t have any bats at home
Joe Seid
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
2Ace Hardware stores sell a guaranteed electronic bat repeller for about $49 called Transonic PRO? It actually says it’s for bats, rodents, spiders, fleas, ticks & other insects!
Dolores Alaimo
November 8th, 2007 at 10:55 am
3How do I know if I have bats in my attic. What kind of noise do they make, either when leaving in the evening or returning in the morning.
SUSAN
December 19th, 2007 at 11:53 am
4I HAVE BATS IN MY WALLS AND AT NIGHT THEY SCRATCH.. SQUEEK AND IRRITATE ME SO BAD AND OF COURSE INTERUPT MY SLEEP… HOW DO I GET IN MY WALL BEHIND MY HEADBOARD TO GET THEM OUT??
Nicola
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
5I have bats in my roof , don’t no how they are getting in, how do I get them out? as they are making noises all time, and checked my attic and they are not in there they are in the walls of the roof?
michelle
May 30th, 2008 at 3:16 am
6i am really afraid of bats. They are my biggest fear, and they live in the wall next to my bed, and i am afraid that they are going to get in to my room, how do i get them out, they sqeeks and scratch so i kno they are there.
how do i get them out, but i dont like killing animals so i want to do so i dont hurt them.
they are scaring me out of my own room
Shari
June 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
7We’ve been trying to get rid of the bats in our roof for two years now. We’ve tried shining a spotlight at the entrance. We tried caulking up the exit after they left at night but the caulk didn’t dry fast enough and they chewed right through it. We tried lining the landing strip with contact paper thinking maybe they would stick, but that didn’t work either. My husband came up with the idea of lining a 3 X 3 piece of cardboard with flypaper strips. We caught five bats the first night we tried it and seven bats the next night. We’re hoping to try again this weekend. I’m not sure how long it will take because we have no idea how many are up there.
Trish
July 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
8I have bats in my attic . I was just wondering if that netting that Dodson will put over my opening of the aframe will work?
Marnie
August 6th, 2008 at 2:40 am
9yah, this would work wonderfully if it weren’t for the fact that i’m deathly afraid of that little thing flying at me while trying to do that
Matt
August 16th, 2008 at 9:08 am
10You’s a shot gun!!!!!!
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