Residential Bat Removal

Bats are remarkable animals - they are the only back-boned animals that possess the ability of true flight. In flight a bat's manoeuvrability is superior even to that of the birds. This is evident if you watch the rapidity with which a bat can change speed, suddenly stopping when in full flight, then making sudden swoops and turning somersaults.

Bats are able to avoid solid objects during flight, even in conditions of total darkness.
They do this by making ultrasonic sounds, above the range of human hearing. While bats are at rest they are constantly squeaking at the rate of about ten times a second. As soon as they start flying the rate goes up to about thirty a second. The bat is not merely measuring the distance of solid objects in front of it but, through its echo location, is picking up a picture of the world around it.

Bats are nocturnal in their habits, although some make occasional flights by day. Most of them have definite hours for flight, depending upon the flight period of the insects they eat. They retire to sleeping places during the day in dark locations, such as hollow trees, caves, outbuildings, behind window shutters or under roofs. During bad weather, the bats may not leave their daytime shelter.

There is little in nature more invigorating than watching bats flutter about at dusk, occasionally "dive-bombing" the insects that annoy us so much. Bats are the best insect control there is, eating up to 600 mosquitoes each in an hour. Yet very few of us are willing to let bats make their homes in our homes, apartments, or other buildings. And why is this?

Unlike mice, bats do not chew holes in buildings. They really don't have to! It takes a space less than an inch wide for a bat to easily come in or out of a building. So holes to the roof or walls are not damage caused by bats. Rather, there are more insidious risks of bats inhabiting our spaces.

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