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There's a bat (at least one) living under the shake shingles on the wall next to my deck. If we're on the deck around dusk, he's fond of buzzing our heads as he heads out for the night.
He's not fighting crime.
I've heard bats are known to occasionally spread rabies, and, while it's probably not as great a risk to my family as, say, a faulty laptop battery, I'd like to get rid of him anyway.
Suggestions?
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Bat signal?
or a local animal health group. .. might assist in relocating the bats. . .?
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Well, the main thing is to get a solid stance with your weight balanced. As you start to swing, you should have the sensation of taking the knob of the bat to the ball. You are pulling with your forwanrd hand. Keep your hands inside the ball and your head still. Follow the ball all the way to the mitt (assuming you don't hit it.)
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As a kid, we would wait for dusk with tennis rackets. As the bats would swoop overhead for mosquitoes, I would knock-'em out of the park...
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Bats consume vast quantities of flying insects. I'd leave them be. Or, if you'd like, hang a few bat houses in some nearby trees. Maybe they'll move.
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I'd let it be as well. Eventualy it will go away.
but if need be, call the local animal control.
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Call animal control.
They can come out and catch the bats that are living in your house and that will give you the opportunity to close up those spaces that are attractive to bats without having to hurt them.
Then get rid of your "attractive nuisance."
Bats like to cram into really tiny spaces. Depending on the fine details, I'd probably get some expanding insulating foam from Home Depot and spray it behind the shingles to fill up all the crannies back there.
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Animal Control might tell you to look in the phone book for professional exterminators (contrary to the professional name, they can certainly let the bat live).
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i was watching a program on houses and seems one house had "bats" in the attic. . .A LOT of them and the inspectors had to wear gear to protect themselves from some disease that might arise from the bat guano. . .
