Community Chat

[tends2dogs]

Do any of you have a bat house?  Have you or someone you now ever built one?  We have bats in the peak of our garage and we want to lure them away. 

I am wondering if any of you have had success in drawing bats to a bat house.

TIA

[Elom]

My pest control person told me it is hard to get them to relocate. I think they may have been in my attic and I hope not. I will find out when they inspect house upon selling. I live in the mountains and am battling one thing after another. Good luck.

[faeriemoon]

I have a cousin who has several.  He's really into bats and bat rehabilitation.  IMO, he's very naive about bats and rabies, and insists they aren't the threat they are purported to be.  However, my veterinarian daughter, as well as the other veterinarians in my family warn against coming into contact with bats as there is a real risk.

[software]

I used to live near a train trestle, bats lived there.   We would watch them at night swoop down on the bugs flying around our dusk to dawn light.  Bats are so beneficial.   Not sure I would want to have a bathouse on my property.

[KathT]

One of our sons is a critter removal specialist. For other critters they catch & relocate. Bats are another thing. They find the place the bats are coming in & seal it & other potential places they could come in. Even doing that, the bats still come back & try to come in until the next year when they look for a new home. OP, I don't think a bat house will work.

[Katcat1]

At first I thought your thread was about a bath house.  Call your local zoo or vet and ask them if there is anything you can do to clear them out.  

[pegsue]

We live in a rural area and someone gave us one so we put it up.  We see bats every night and couldn't wait for some to find the bat house but for whatever reason none of them ever took to it.  We left it up for years and one nice spring morning my windows were open and I heard this crunching, knawing sound outside.  There were 2 dang squirrels at the bat house and they literally chewed it to pieces and it eventually fell! 

[Spurt]

If you have a Wildlife Conservation Group in your area call them and they can recommend a safe and humane way to remove the bats.

Bat's are beneficial---they eat insects including mosquitos and in this day and age of the Zika virus bats are a good thing.  

We have a couple colonies in our city and surrounding area no problem with rabies.  

[Azcowgirl]

Even after having an expert seal everything up tight, somehow they could still get in my two story log home ceiling , and in the middle of the night I had to get a bat out of the house by myself (DH was out of town). They are incredibly persistent. I thought about a bat house to see if they would move into it , but wound up selling the log home. Living in the mountains we were always battling something , as another poster said. Good luck.

[sandraskates]

@tends2dogs

Why YES, we do - purposely - have a bat house!

We bought it at an arts festival but some feed stores also carry them.

We put it up at the side of our house and the bats have taken to it nicely. I wish we'd bought the guano catcher that goes underneath because you can use it for fertilzer. Hubby sees the bats flying around in the early morning; they are quite a site. But once it's daylight they hibernate in their house. They're kinda cute actually.

As I said, we bought our purposely, not because we had bats where we didn't want them. So I don't really know if they will natually gravitate from your garage into a house. You'll have to ask that question of someone familiar with their behavior and maybe even someone in your area.