1) If bats get into your house, remediation can be very expensive. As you say, pest exclusion is the way to go. Most companies that provide termite bonds will also throw in pest exclusion (it's not expensive, warrantied for the first year, just decline the annual check thereafter and maintain it yourself.
2) Build and install a bat house! is the best idea, but our bathouse is still waiting five years later for bats to find it :<
That's a good tip about termite companies and pest exclusion! And hmm, I wonder if you just have enough cool natural places for your pats to roost that they don't need the bathouse?
One winter day, I was in the “master bedroom”, tried to put on my shoe and it wouldn’t fit.
I thought, maybe, a wadded-up sock was in it so I thumped it on the floor and a cold, sleeping, bat rolled out !
I took it to work and did “show and tell”. Fun times !
( never could figure out how it got in - but there were plenty of ways, no doubt)
:)
Yikes! Harriet once found a live mouse in her rain boot! I wonder if the bat you found got in the same way our bat got in...
No telling ! I read (somewhere) that rodents only need a space as large as their head to enter. A lovely thought. Their heads are SMALL !
1) If bats get into your house, remediation can be very expensive. As you say, pest exclusion is the way to go. Most companies that provide termite bonds will also throw in pest exclusion (it's not expensive, warrantied for the first year, just decline the annual check thereafter and maintain it yourself.
2) Build and install a bat house! is the best idea, but our bathouse is still waiting five years later for bats to find it :<
That's a good tip about termite companies and pest exclusion! And hmm, I wonder if you just have enough cool natural places for your pats to roost that they don't need the bathouse?