It is better to wait until September to do an exclusion. You could still have flightless young in July and early August. In August, most nursery colonies will naturally disperse. You also do not want to just tack up exclusion netting mid-winter. Big Brown Bats are one of the few species that do winter in buildings (most leave for mines or caves that offer higher humidity levels). But our winter monitoring has shown that bats, for whatever reason, do take intermittent flights during the hibernation period! If you exclude them in winter, they may have no other place to go and will freeze to death. Generally, May and September are the best months to install one-way excluders for bats.
If the bats can get in small openings then why wouldn't they re-enter through the holes in the netting which in your example are quite big? Thanks for uploading this video
@@davemi00 I read 1/2 " too big. Fine fish Net DOES NOT work - will entangle bat. Flexible Net will Entangle a bat in it. Not good - Use Rigid Net, 1/4 inch, not 1/2, so they will fly out -under the net - but they will not be able to squeeze back in.
Check your state's Law on WHEN it is LEGAL to start bat exclusion! Each state has its own laws! Bats are federally protected species. Some folks got huge fines, in many thousands of $s, for having removed bats from their properties at the wrong time of year. It is illegal to kill a bat - stay away from their flight, so you won't have to fight them...
@@xyzyzx2734 I can appreciate your willingness to follow laws but I believe anymore who is criminally charged and fined for -simply- excluding bats at the “wrong” time of year needs to demand a jury trial. Requiring someone to wait and live with any bats until the right time is PETA wacko ludicrousness. Even in today’s crazy times I highly doubt any jury would convict anyone for such a ridiculous charge. Blatant cruelty yes, protecting yourself and home not a chance.
@@chadhartman1040 So the law reads, that UNLESS the bats do damage to your property, persons should exclude at specific times of the year only - not when they have the young. No legitimate bat removal company would undertake bat exclusion when the bats are too young to fly on their own. Never exclude bats on your own, when they still are not able to fly. By late Aug, Sept - the bats are all able to fly - away, rather than too soon, when the young will just fall to the ground, unable to fly away. A jury trial in such a case, may well side with what the law says... protected species... So, normally, we may not even know there are bats on the property, unless we see some discoloration on the wall, and the droppings on the ground. IF this damage bothers you too much to wait up, a wild life rescue may need to get involved, they should arrive and do the exclusion in a safe manner ...but if they are unavailable, then a pro company for a fee... I was told by one to schedule an appointment for late Aug, not sooner. You can call the County and hear what they say. IF a lost bat got inside the home, there is a procedure for getting it safely out - look up how to do it on a wild rescue site or google it. Same, if they got inside an attic.
It is better to wait until September to do an exclusion. You could still have flightless young in July and early August. In August, most nursery colonies will naturally disperse. You also do not want to just tack up exclusion netting mid-winter. Big Brown Bats are one of the few species that do winter in buildings (most leave for mines or caves that offer higher humidity levels). But our winter monitoring has shown that bats, for whatever reason, do take intermittent flights during the hibernation period! If you exclude them in winter, they may have no other place to go and will freeze to death. Generally, May and September are the best months to install one-way excluders for bats.
If the bats can get in small openings then why wouldn't they re-enter through the holes in the netting which in your example are quite big? Thanks for uploading this video
Gotta be a 1/2” to get in.
@@davemi00 I read 1/2 " too big. Fine fish Net DOES NOT work - will entangle bat. Flexible Net will Entangle a bat in it. Not good - Use Rigid Net, 1/4 inch, not 1/2, so they will fly out -under the net - but they will not be able to squeeze back in.
Check your state's Law on WHEN it is LEGAL to start bat exclusion! Each state has its own laws! Bats are federally protected species. Some folks got huge fines, in many thousands of $s, for having removed bats from their properties at the wrong time of year. It is illegal to kill a bat - stay away from their flight, so you won't have to fight them...
If your state has ludicrous and completely ridiculous laws like that…it’s time to move.
@@xyzyzx2734 I can appreciate your willingness to follow laws but I believe anymore who is criminally charged and fined for -simply- excluding bats at the “wrong” time of year needs to demand a jury trial. Requiring someone to wait and live with any bats until the right time is PETA wacko ludicrousness. Even in today’s crazy times I highly doubt any jury would convict anyone for such a ridiculous charge. Blatant cruelty yes, protecting yourself and home not a chance.
@@chadhartman1040 So the law reads, that UNLESS the bats do damage to your property, persons should exclude at specific times of the year only - not when they have the young. No legitimate bat removal company would undertake bat exclusion when the bats are too young to fly on their own. Never exclude bats on your own, when they still are not able to fly. By late Aug, Sept - the bats are all able to fly - away, rather than too soon, when the young will just fall to the ground, unable to fly away. A jury trial in such a case, may well side with what the law says... protected species... So, normally, we may not even know there are bats on the property, unless we see some discoloration on the wall, and the droppings on the ground. IF this damage bothers you too much to wait up, a wild life rescue may need to get involved, they should arrive and do the exclusion in a safe manner ...but if they are unavailable, then a pro company for a fee... I was told by one to schedule an appointment for late Aug, not sooner. You can call the County and hear what they say. IF a lost bat got inside the home, there is a procedure for getting it safely out - look up how to do it on a wild rescue site or google it. Same, if they got inside an attic.
@@xyzyzx2734 Ridiculousness like this needs to stop before there are crazy laws preventing us from removing flys and ants from our own homes.
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