It can be insanely frustrating when you find bats in your home. If you’ve been paying attention, you know they can cause thousands of dollars of damage. They smell, they carry disease, and they carry fleas.
Nobody loves unwanted guests.
Is it any wonder we field a lot of questions about whether it’s okay to just head up to the attic to start shooting the bats? The irritation is real. Nevertheless, humane relocation is the solution: not wasting bullets on a bat colony which is probably going to be too large to effectively shoot anyway.
Bats Are Vital to the Texas Ecosystem
If you’ve lived in Texas for long enough, you already know Houston has tons of mosquitoes and other pest insects. Bats have a voracious appetite for those insects. They even target agricultural pests, which means they play a vital role in protecting our food supply.
You might have known about the insects already, but you might not know about one other important role. Bats are pollinators. Guano also serves as fertilizer. In an era when bees are in trouble, it’s more important than ever to protect pollinators like bats.
Killing Bats is Illegal
In Texas it is illegal to kill, trap, buy, or sell bats. They may only be moved or trapped. Some science labs may transport bats for the purpose of lab testing, but only if there’s a rabies concern.
Stay on the right side of the law! Wildlife removal services cost way less than criminal lawyers do!
Humane Relocation is Sustainable
Our exclusion methods use one-way doors or netting that let bats leave but keeps them out when they try to return. They’re forced to find a new roost, but they aren’t harmed by the process.
Since the entire colony leaves the nest at once to go hunting each night, this method is a fast, easy way to remove the entire colony without harming any bat or breaking the law.
Of course, it’s all about the timing, and about making sure we exclude every entrance, which is where our extensive experience with bat removal comes in. It doesn’t hurt that our guys have zero fear of heights: we can get where most homeowners don’t want to go!
Exclusion Reduces Human-Bat Interaction
Trying to kill bats would mean more exposure to disease, not less. We don’t actually touch bats when we use exclusion methods, or get as close to them as killing them would allow.
Exclusion protects the health and safety of everyone.
Schedule an Inspection Today
Seeing signs of bats in your home?
Schedule a free inspection with Elite WIldlife Services today! We’ll find all the methods bats are using to get in and out of your home, and will help you get rid of them in the humane, effective, and safe way.
