Any bat experts?

[cowboydoc]

I've got one barn that has become very infested with bats. I've tryed the sonar, bat houses, etc. and no luck. I've closed all the openings I can find but they keep coming back. Always know by all the guana they leave. The problem is it's a machine shed and doors are open and closed on it all the time. It's an older barn that I redid and so it has a very high peak which they seem to love and won't give up. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Old_Hickory]

Anyway you put chicken wire or a 1/2" hardware cloth ceiling in there to keep them from flying up in there??? In other words block there access to the ceiling......................
I hate bats...........................

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

When you say Sonar are you referring to the devices you plug in for mice and spiders etc? Lentek.com makes such a device.

Never tried one on bats but they remind me of flying rats.

Just got called to the supper table...... Will check back here in awhile.

Tom

 

[MossRoad]

Try putting the lights up there, maybe? Don't leave any shadows. Might work. Might cause a fire. You know how to be safe, so that's all for the safety lecture.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I just finished the dishes cause the boss cooked the meal.

I posted a thread awhile back about building bat houses. Someone said they had a barn for a bat house. Must of been you Doc.

I am trying to attract them to a bat house and you are trying to get them to leave. Always works that way.

They are a beneficial species so long as they stay where we don't want them. And in our spaces is not where we want them. I can definitely understand wanting them to locate somewhere else.

You might try the motion lights pointing up with a couple of floods to attempt to make them leave. Put the light switch to test so it only turns on for a few seconds when it detects motion.

Not sure about bats but we use one in the garden with a 150 watt flood in one side and a radio plugged into the other side. Harassed the crap out of the critters. Most of them gave up and we shared with the rest of them .

Kind of how we got rid of the wild turkey that took up residence on our upper deck a few summers ago. We thought it was neat for awhile but he wore out his welcome. Slept on the railing at night. Crapped on everything on the deck if the wind was out of the West. Out of the East was fine. He dropped it over the flower bed below then. This is not to mention the built in "first light" alarm clock that comes with a Turkey.

Ended up chasing the thing one Sunday with a Super Soaker in the golf cart after he learned how far the hose would reach and would just stay out of range. We still hear him from time to time and know where he is cause some older lady on the hill about a 1/4 mile away feeds him out of her bird feeder.

Doc, long story short, Hell, I don't know. I got lost in a story about a turkey. And, we should have just ate that sunflower seed, corn fed critter.

Tom

 

[cowboydoc]

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[DKinWA]

I did some checking on our website and found a page that might have what you're looking for (see link below). Try surfing some of the related links and there might be something there. Let me know if you don't find anything and I'll make a few calls to some of my coworkers and see if they have some ideas. While visiting the site, check out some of the other wildwatch cams. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback on them and the biologist the made it happen did a great job.

Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Wildwatch Bat Cam

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> Any bat experts? </font>

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[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> "(The bats) crap all over everything and leave a real mess. They will literally cover the floor in a month..." </font>

Isn't there some use for that as a high nitrogen fertilizer? I'm actually being serious about that. I think the polite term is 'bat guano' or something like that.

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> They will literally cover the floor in a month where they roost. </font>

And, sorry to say, bats are common carriers of rabbies. It can be transferred by their saliva. So if an infected bat spits on you, you could get infected. Sounds gross, but it is the truth.(stop laughing now) It's not like a bat is going to come up and hock a luggie at you, but if they are flying overhead and there are that many, there is that chance. Even though they are a benneficial and protected species, they've go to go.

Do they stay there all winter? There is a large bat population in a barn at one of our county parks. They leave for caves in the winter. That might be the time to seal the place up.