Unfortunately, animal removal is a process that can’t always happen at any point in time. Knowing when the best time to evict your new tenants allows for a smoother process, versus trying to remove the animal at a time that simply doesn’t work.
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Bats, in particular, can’t always be evicted as soon as they begin resting in your home. There are several implications to removing bats in June or July, meaning it’s best to clear them out during other times of the year. Learn more below about why you shouldn’t remove bats during the summer months and when it’s the best time to do so.
Breeding Time
June and July is baby season. Bats are born without wings, making them completely vulnerable to harm and fully reliant on their mother, who’s out foraging for food, feeding her pup, and teaching her baby how to be a bat. Removing babies now would trap them inside without food, eventually starving them to death. Dead bats inside the walls are a bigger nuisance to deal with versus safely evicting live ones.
Female bats have only one pup per litter, and they reproduce only once a year. Such a short breeding season makes bat reproduction a challenge. Mother bats purposely manipulate their pregnancy at a time to get the most out of it: when the highest level of food is available and when the temperature is ideal as the weather starts getting warmer.
You don’t want to block moms from their babies. If you’ve discovered bats now, it’s best to wait until the fall to remove them. By this time, babies have their wings and are ready to leave the nest.
Seasonal Creatures
Not that any time of the year is great for dealing with animal removal, but removing bats really does have seasonal advantages. In the winter, bats are hibernating. With less time spent outside, it’s difficult to tell where they’re coming and going, resulting in you running into them as you attempt to find their nest and evict them.
Spring and autumn are the best time to get rid of bats. Spring time is mating season. Bats are out and about catching insects for mating, and they’re also less likely to starve if they’re evicted now, as plenty of food is available at this time of year. As the mothers aren’t birthing yet, they haven’t fully established a roost. In the fall, juvenile bats are grown up, ready to leave the nest and make it on their own. The babies are now old enough to fly, so you’re less likely to run into them while cleaning your attic.
By late spring, it’s too late to remove bats, as the mothers are having their babies and nursing them through the remainder of the summer. You want to avoid this season altogether.
Do You Think You Have Bats?
Bats carry different health risks, and while now is the wrong time for removal, you can start taking other preventative measures, such as reducing the available entry points in your home. Sealing some of the current entrances will limit where bats can or can’t enter, while also getting some initial work out of the way.
By the fall and winter, you can start implementing the standard process used: one way doors. This technique guides bats out of the home without trapping any mature pups inside and ensures they can’t come back in later to roost.
If you think or know you have bats in your home, call animal removal services right away. They’ll handle this situation and develop an effective plan, beginning with assessment and ending in restoration to leave your home bat free. Wildlife removal services analyze your home to safely and humanely remove bats while also ensuring they don’t return.
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