Anyone dealt with bats in their house?

**Delkal** · February 28th, 2024, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by Walleye Hunter

Shit man, all you needed was a fish or butterfly net.

If they are living in your attic and you let it go.......Where is it going to go?

**Sandcut** · February 28th, 2024, 06:56 PM

What you may want to do is to go to Tractor Supply and buy a couple of bat boxes to install around the yard, prior to evicting them from your house. Having bats around is good and, considering that their populations aren't doing so well as a whole (possibly due to neonicotinoid pesticide use), that providing a refuge to the few that do show up is a simple, inexpensive, yet valuable thing to do.

I'd love to see bats around my house again. Haven't seen any in years.

**Walleye Hunter** · February 28th, 2024, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Delkal

If they are living in your attic and you let it go.......Where is it going to go?

If they're living there, they're going to go back in but if they were a straggler that came down the chimney, probably not. But what's that have to do with catching them in a net?

**cdi** · February 28th, 2024, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Walleye Hunter

Shit man, all you needed was a fish or butterfly net.

I don't look great in fishnets. Unless there's a killer pair of heels.

**Delkal** · February 28th, 2024, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by Walleye Hunter

If they're living there, they're going to go back in but if they were a straggler that came down the chimney, probably not. But what's that have to do with catching them in a net?

S. S. S.

Or you can try saying "You naughty bat. Please fly somewhere else and please don't come back in my house and give my family rabies".

I like bats......just not flying around in my living room.

**Here4now** · February 29th, 2024, 06:56 AM

**cruzans** · February 29th, 2024, 09:05 PM

I wish we had made a video. Back in the 90's my wife and I lived in the Virgin Islands. After a few months there, we would get fruit bats that would come into our home every night as the sun started to go down. Scared the shit out of my wife. Our home was two level, upstairs one giant open floor plan and bedrooms downstairs. The main floor also had soaring peaked ceiling. The bats, usually 3 or 4 would come in and just fly around the room. I would stand on a bar stool, grab a tennis racket and watch their pattern. Then, one by one I'd smack them down as they repeated their flight pattern like serving a tennis ball! After a few nights, and having a pest expert come over at night, we discovered they were coming in from behind our kitchen cabinets that had pulled away slightly from the wall.
Sorry, no help I know, but cracked me up when I saw your post remembering our adventures. And being in the Caribbean, there was no worries about "save the bats" or anything, it was just kill the bastards and fix the issue.
Good luck!