West Palm Beach's Best Bat Removal

What is the bat maternity season?

You will find that when a colony of bats invades your home, you have a bunch of mothers-to-be living alongside you. Generally, only female bats will take residence in your home and that is because they are trying to find somewhere warm, dry and safe to have their babies and bring them up safely. For the most few months especially, the baby bats will be in a nervous time of their life. They won't be able to fly for many weeks yet, and all they have is their mother to rely on and provide food. 

This brings us neatly to our next point – the reason why it is illegal to move bats during their maternity season which, depending on the species of bat, can fall anytime between April right through until August. You will find that the Evening bat is the first to start having their babies with a season that runs from April through until July. The Mexican free tail bat will come next, starting to drop their babies in May through until August, and the little brown bat and big brown bat will have their babies next, usually falling into maternity season from June until August. 

Let's think about it logically – firstly, bats help to keep the eco-system stable and the amount of insects down to keep plants growing, etc. If you start to kill off the bats, or attempt to move them during the time that they are having their babies, you are potentially wrecking the order of the eco-system, leading to an overgrowth of insects and a downfall of plant quality. Just your one action can make a massive difference, which is just one reason why moving the bats during maternity reason is illegal. In fact, should you get caught you will get prosecuted and you could face hefty fines. 

The fact of the matter is that when you try to move the bats during this delicate period of their life, you are actually causing yourself more work. Let's think about this – the baby is unable to fly for around two or three months and during this time, they will be heavily reliant on their mother to bring them food and to keep them safe. If you try to remove the mothers from the home at this time, or use poisons and fumigants to keep them at bay, you are basically killing or removing the mothers and you will still have a whole host of baby bats left to deal with. As they hunt for food, they will crawl around in your home, disappearing into cracks and crevices that you will never be able to easily get to, eventually dying. This, as you can imagine, will cause a nasty smell in your home and when you think about the sheer numbers involved here, you could be in with a real problem. The average colony of mother bats will contain around 40. If each of these have one pup each (most mothers will have just one) and you have 40 babies that you will not only need to find, but also work out how to dispose of. That is before you even begin to think about the horror that can happen if you leave them to die in your home. This will attract all sorts of other animals and could cause disease, amongst many other things. 

Any wildlife control expert worth their weight will tell you never, ever to try and remove bats during the maternity season. All you need to do is wait until roughly August time, where any professional or team of experts will be more than happy to help you in your quest to become bat-free. With a little bit of patience and a helping hand from those that are experienced in such a field, you will find that bat-removal will be much easier, rather than trying to do it when the bats are just trying to make their babies.