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Bats eat their weight in mosquitoes every night, unlike your typical hoa board member
This isn’t funny, think of all the poor HOA board members that get eaten by bats every night
Stop, stop. I can only get so erect.
but they do suck blood
And can carry rabies
Yes, but enough about the HOA!
My parents attic was a bat haven. Every once in awhile one would get into the house. I’d just put thick leather garden gloves on and GENTLY pluck them off the curtains. Then carry them outside, hold them above my head and let them go.
Bats can’t take flight from the ground(putting them on the ground is a death sentence), so you have to give them some height so they can glide away. Just thought I’d share this in case anyone gets a bat trapped in their house.
Also unless you know for certain they haven’t touched you, get rabies shots. Actually just get rabies shots anyway.
Yes, make sure they don’t get on you.
If the bat isn’t afraid of people call animal control because it is sick with rabies or something and shut it in the room it’s in. Usually they are very timid and will try to get away from you though.
I should’ve added that rabies is very rare in bats where I am so that’s probably why I was given the advice I was.
Thank you, I had no idea.
Looks like at least one type can take flight from the ground, although with some difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIl_bYFMr8o
death sentence seems a bit excessive, surely they can climb? Yeah putting them on the ground probably makes it much more likely they’ll get nabbed by a predator before they get up a tree, but it feels like saying “putting a human in a tree is a death sentence”
I’m simply repeating what I was told by professionals, so I’m not sure what you want from me.
Make sure the bat takes flight…some people might not know that and just put it on the ground and go back inside thinking it’s fine.
Holding it up high ensures it does that, no need for it to find something to climb. Being trapped in a house is stressful on the little guys so why not give them the best chance?
Just trying to provide helpful info to folks.
Have a nice day!
I would consider this a service to the neighborhood. More bats, fewer mosquitoes.
But they’re black so HOAs hate them.
It’s important to build the right kind of roost for the bats in your area
Check https://www.batcon.org/ for guidance and inspiration
I imagine they’d just force you to do what I had to do to rid myself of bats from my home, seal all of the doors of the roost for 1 years with 1 way doors(so they can freely leave) then after that year you would then be clear to remove the structure
So, after you build this Bat Roost, how do you tell the local bat population that you’re open for business … asking for … a friend, purely for … educational purposes.
Bats are incredibly picky about their roosts. People have done this and attracted 0 bats lol.
It helps if you actually live near bats.
I came home to a small ball of fluff and wings wrapped up in the corner of my porch one day, so for gits and shiggles I put up a small bat box on a post against the trees nearby.
It took a week or two but I noticed it was in use when I went outside one night and saw one pop out of it.
Protip: be very careful about what you use to stain/paint it. Apparently they don’t like the smell of those things. I didn’t paint mine.
Bats need a real estate agent…
It helps if you actually live near bats
So you SHOULDN’T expect thousands of bats to travel thousands of miles for your roost? Good to know!
crosses “build bat roost by Greenland vacation house” from to-do list
In my village in the Netherlands bat roosts are installed in a bunch of places, they also mandate that houses have little box things on their side for them. Never seen a single bat lmao, but in the old family house in France there’s a bunch in the attic.
Nobody complains about bats, bats are awesome and hard to notice anyway
that last bit tells me you’re either old or have hearing damage: we have some bats around me and despite never once seeing them it’s plainly obvious to me that they exist thanks to their shrill squeaky calls in the twilight.
Some species of bats spend more time in the upper ranges that no human can hear than others.
The spotted bat for instance, is found on west coast if North America and mostly calls at 11khz well within even older human hearing while other bats operate entirely outside human hearing.
I live in an HOA (obligatory Fuck them)
They put up numerous bat boxes on poles around the common wooded area and a large retention pond right about the time Covid started.
Main reason is it’s free insect killers. We have tons of pests anyway being so close to a wooded area and a lake + the retention pond we have and the added bats help to clear some of them out.
As for the noise, no you really don’t hear them here. All the frogs are the loudest things heard of a night.
Sitting out on my deck listening to the frogs/nature at night. I still hear the bats when they are within 20ft. It isn’t loud but you hear them. They are a pleasant addition to the symphony that goes on at night.
Now… fuck pheasants at night they are loud and when you don’t know what the sound is its creepy
Interesting. Probably the species around where I live don’t make much noise, nobody else hears them here
maybe swedish ones are just constantly death metal growling
This is solar punk
I thought bats were nocturnal
Now this is lunarpunk
No, this is pod racing
Which country?
Home Owner Associations are a US thing, I think.
