Methods You Can Use At Home For Bat Control Wellington FL Area

By Marissa Velazquez


Bats like to live in the highest points of the house like the attic. This is because these areas are dark and warm making it the most favorable dwelling place for them. They move and live in colonies and they can make the home inhabitable with their droppings, noise and smell. So it is good to find out ways of carrying out bat control Wellington FL area to keep these pests away from the house.

One simple way you can keep these pests out of your attic is by putting a bat house outside your house. By doing this, you provide a home for the bats so they can stay away from your house. It is possible to get this structure from a home improvement retailer or the organization responsible for their conservation. Before putting it outside your home, you need first to find out which points the bats are using to enter and leave your house.

When you identify the point, you should place the structure in its close proximity. This way they change route, in that instead of going to your house they go to their own home. These structures can be set on a pole or tree. Sometimes you may be required to put it on the side of your house for them to notice it.

Another option involves the sealing of all holes and cracks that may serve as an access point. The bats take advantage of very small openings to gain access of your house, therefore any space exceeding a quarter of an inch should be considered for sealing. Caution should be exercised before and during this process, to ensure that all of them have exited to avoid trapping some of them inside.

Despite the importance of windows and doors, these pests can also use them to invade your house. This can however be prevented by constructing window screens and draft protectors on the doors to inhibit their entry. Chimneys should always be covered by a cap while holes made during electrical or plumbing activities should be well filled to secure them.

In isolated cases where some places cannot be properly sealed, you can try to make them unfavorable for the pests to inhabit. This can be easily achieved by making the space to look full of activity by setting up lights, balloons, chimes or any other means that may improve the brightness in the room. This might not be comfortable for both the homeowner and the bats but at least it will make them leave the house.

There are commercial repellents in the market today which are believed to be effective in keeping these pests out of your house. Naphthalene is an example of such repellents. Using these products does not guarantee 100 percent results due to the fact that at times the bats move out of the house. This product has a very strong smell which can cause an allergic person to react to it.

If you find only one of these pests in the house, there is a chance that it entered by mistake and there is no colony in your home. By opening doors and windows widely, it can fly out on its own. If this does not work, you can wear heavy work gloves and use a container to trap it inside then set it free outside your house. When undertaking any bat control Wellington FL method, you should not smack the bats with any object like a broom. This is very dangerous because it makes them offensive and they can bite you.




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