Bats and attics (was detectors)

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

If you look around you can find good plans and sources for bat houses (sort of like bird houses, except they try to prevent birds from liking them too much) to replace the attics. Bats are endangered and shutting them out of their hibernating places is a bad idea. 

Bat guano isn't everyone's taste (The Guana Batz might suit more people), but you should make sure that the "specialist" has a good plan B for the bats. Otherwise you are further endangering an endangered species...

Just listen to the awesome sounds if you need more reasons to make sure they stick around...;)

Kai




On 05.10.2010, at 20:17, Tony Scharf wrote:

> We had a bat problem in our attic when we moved into our house - they
> can do *nasty* damage, as their droppings are very toxic.
> 
> We had specialists out who installed 'excluders' in a few holes they
> found, that allowed the bats to leave, but they couldnt get back in.
> We havent had a problem since.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:14 PM, diode <diodeladder at free.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> Le 5 oct. 2010 à 02:21, K9 Kai Niggemann a écrit :
>> 
>>> All comments welcome..!
>> 
>> Reminds me I got finally the proof of who is haunting the attic at the family cabin in the Alps after 30 years. At least one maybe 2 or 3 bats. I'm hearing them moving around (and of course flying round the cabin) for this time, but never figured out where did they are coming from (no known passage, now I know), and never saw them inside.
>> 
>> But this year, as I took pics to verify the roof is sound as we had a little problem at the chimney junctions some years ago, I got it twice with the camera. \:D/
>> 
>> Now…
>> 
>> - identifying a bat with pics of it exactly sideways is not the best…
>> - they must be going in/out from the roof top as it's slightly open, only closed by a large metal ribbon that have spaces under
>> - We plan to change the ribbon for copper, to prevent moss, but we may trap the cuties inside
>> - they are doing a mess up there…
>> 
>> I think I'll have a lot of questions for the specialists at the "night of the bats" next year.
>> 
>> Oh, and we have a few kg of pure organic bat fertilizer ^^
>> 
>> Denis H]
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