Bat Removal From Attic and Chimney
Removal of Bats By definition there is no such thing as “Bat Pest Control.” Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s pest control companies began receiving calls about bats that were roosting in attics and vents of residential houses and roofs of commercial buildings.
The pest control companies were stumped because they had never dealt with residential bat removal issues before. Most pest control companies are used to spraying poisons for insects and small invertebrates and in typical “pest control fashion” these companies began to spray the bats with pesticides in an effort to kill as many as possible. Bats are mammals, not insects. Poisons may not kill them, and if they do, you’re left with a horrible stench of decaying bats.
These companies were killing thousands of bats needlessly and charging the customer for a service that didn’t produce a permanent solution. They would spray the visible bats and not seal any of the areas of the roof that the bats were using to gain access to the attic.
It is clear that attitudes have changing in an industry historically dedicated to destroying bats. For decades pest control operators had too often told nightmarish myths about the dangers of bats, whipping homeowners into a frenzy and then charging them large fees to kill their bats with dangerous poisons. Now many of these business people have learned that America’s insectivorous bats are, nature’s own pest controllers and need to be protected. The use of poison to kill bats has been banned in most of the United States, and abuses of these laws are in decline.