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Whay must be done regarding bats in the attic.
Why do bats like to live in attics.
Sealing the building properly is critical to the process.
Colonies of bats prefer quiet cave like spaces to roost reproduce and raise their young.
They don t like the cold and your attic is nice and warm.
Instead they re interested in insects that swarm around lights like moths and mosquitoes.
A nesting site must be warm but not too hot for bats.
The bats are usually excluded through one way exclusion devices.
You don t want to kill a beneficial bat anyway.
Contrary to popular belief bats are not attracted to light.
The bats must be removed from the attic and they are protected as colonies so they must not be killed.
Buildings attics in particular provide a warm dry safe space to live in and raise baby bat pups.
These tactics have been ruled fraudulent by the ftc and they do not work.
When bats are entering or exiting the small holes to and from their roost area in your attic the oil that is produced by their skin accumulates at the entry point and becomes an.
Temperature also plays a significant role in bat attraction.
The solution for the unwelcome bats in your attic.
When it comes to nesting sites bats prefer dry dark areas.
Often times you have to use multiple methods to effectively get rid of the entire bat colony safely.
There are many ways bats can get into an attic and when they do they ll leave behind a black streaky and oily mess that is a sure mark of a bat entry point.
An attic is sort of like a cave but even better because it s protected from predators and high off the ground making entry and exit easy.