Here at Animal Capture WildlifeControl we specialize in bat removal! When dealing with bats, experience is the most important thing!  When a home has bats, most times the bats are entering the structure and then able to enter the living space of the home.  These bats sometimes get lost from the colony and make their way into the home through light fixtures or small crack in the drywall.  Bats live in colonies up to two thousand bats.  In some cases there is more than one colony in separate parts of the home.  Bats can fit in the area the size of a dime, so that why when you are removing them you use one-way doors to get them out and then seal up the rest of the home.  Make sure you seal up the rest of the home when you put the one-way doors on because you don’t want them to move to another part of the home when you get them out of the main spot.  One thing a lot of people don’t know is bat droppings and mouse droppings look exactly the same.  The difference is when you put a mouse or a rat dropping between your fingers and rub them together, a mouse or rat dropping will stay hard.  A bat dropping when you rub it in between your fingers will turn to powder.  That’s because their dies consists of insects.

“Under current California law, property owners or their employees may legally remove bats from property when bats are damaging it. (It is illegal to capture or possess bats for any other reason without a license from the Department of Fish and Game.) Beware of unscrupulous pest control companies, however, that want to poison or fumigate bats to kill them. Not only is the use of poisons or fumigants on bats illegal under both state and federal law, it’s costly and doesn’t solve the problem. Unless bats are removed and their access points sealed, more bats will be back next year. The best way to remove bats is by permanently excluding their access. A variety of humane exclusion techniques are available that let bats escape from, but not reenter, the roost in your building. Exclusion techniques should NOT be used during the maternity season if young is present, usually from about the beginning of June through the end of August, when young bats are unable to fly and manage on their own. Besides being unnecessarily cruel, excluding bats during the maternity season can actually make the problem worse with the smell of dead baby bats and bugs they attract. Despite the valuable role bats play in our ecosystem, losses are occurring at alarming rates worldwide. In California, 10 of our 24 bat species are currently classified as “Species of Special Concern,” meaning that they have low or declining numbers of individuals, or low, scattered or highly localized populations that require active management to prevent them from becoming threatened or endangered species.”

“Although you may never have a bat in your house, you cannot avoid them – they occur everywhere on our planet except the North Pole and Antarctica. Almost one-quarter of the world’s 4,400 species of mammals are bats. Twenty-four of the more than 900 species occur in California. In California, bats occur at elevations ranging from below sea level to almost 11,000 feet. As for the myth about rabies, less than on-half of one percent of bats carry rabies, and normally bite only in self-defense. They pose little threat to the people who do not handle them. Worldwide, 99 percent of the human deaths due to rabies each year are due to contact with rabid dogs, the primary vector of human rabies. The simplest way to prevent exposure to rabies is to avoid contact with any unfamiliar animal, and never handle wild mammals. Rabies in bats takes a paralytic form, meaning the animal becomes subdued and may be found quietly resting on the ground. Never pick up a bat on the ground – instead, call a professional like Animal Capture Wildlife Control. Bats, like other mammals, have hair, nurse their young, and produce body heat internally. Unlike all other mammals, bats fly, using wings formed by a flexible, leathery skin membrane stretched between highly modified elongated fingers and forearms, leg bones and the tall. But unlike most small mammals, bats are long-lived (up to 30 years or more for some species), and most species produce only one young per year.”

Here at Animal capture Wildlife Control, we treat bats in the most humane way possible, we never hurt them, and most important we NEVER kill them. We use one-way doors to remove bats, we seal up their access point as well as any other potential access points. Experience is the biggest thing in determining the bats access points. In the removing process, you need the expertise to know how to get the bats out without injuring or killing them. Only an expert will know when all the bats are completely out.