Florida Bat Prevention - Orlando

Keep bats off property. Make the building structure bat proof.
Humane commercial / residential exclusion for bat problems.

Bat Prevention: Methods of habitat manipulation

Artificial Light
Since bats prefer dark spaces, artificial light can be used quite successfully, but only if the light is kept on continuously and moved regularly. Otherwise, the bats will soon find dark corners to avoid the light. This method also may cause bats to move deeper into the house as they avoid the light, making them more likely to enter living areas and come into contact with people.

Repellents
Although a number of methods have been devised to repel bats, this approach is only a temporary solution. Naphthalene (mothball) flakes can be applied to the area of infestation. As long as a strong odor remains, bats may not return. The effects will not last long and repeated applications are required to deter bat re-entry.

Ammonia can be used to clean areas infested by bats. Pans of the solution then can be placed in a former roost to act as a repellent. Neither of these methods will be successful as long as bats can reenter the habitat once the odor has begun to fade. The strong odor is also offensive to humans and repeated applications may not be a tolerable long-term solution. Repellents are not as effective as simply waiting for the bat's normal departure at dusk and taking appropriate exclusionary measures.

Fumigants
There are serious disadvantages to the use of fumigants against bats. The results are not permanent, and the building may be recolonized at a later time. Also, poisons used in the extermination of bats may cause an increase in human or pet contact with bats as sickened bats fall to the ground and slowly die. Even if fumigation quickly killed all bats present, it would provide only a very temporary solution at best. Other bats could safely move in within just 2 days unless entry holes are plugged--a solution that would negate the need for fumigation. If fumigation killed a significant number of bats within the walls of a home, a serious odor problem would result. Simple exclusion after the bats' nightly departure is a far preferable solution. A fumigant can be considered for bat control only in a real public health emergency under the authority of a special permit issued by the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission and only after all other feasible methods of exclusion and removal have failed.

Ultrasonics
Ultrasonic repellents are ineffective as a deterrent against an animal that uses ultrasound waves in many aspects of its life. They may actually attract bats.

Wildlife Patrol are not exterminators and we do not exterminate or kill bats. Bats are removed safely, humanely, and without dangerous chemicals or poisons.

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