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How To Rid Your Home Of Bats

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Updated: Jul 21, 2022

BATS!!!! Some people like them (like Batman and Robin) and just about everyone else could do without them. We have it pretty good here in Sarasota and the surrounding area — the sea breeze helps with the heat and it rarely gets too cold. All things considered, there are many worse areas to live around the country and in the world at large.


Bats hanging from roof eave in a Sarasota home, Check out the video below to see them move and hear them.

That said, Sarasota and its beautiful weather makes it a perfect place for bats and that tends to be an issue this time of the year. They like to make their homes in buildings like houses and commercial structures. We can’t hate them too much for that as humans have taken over a good deal of their natural habitat over the last few centuries. Bats need to find new places to make their colonies in order to survive, and Sarasota structures are as good a place as any. When bats happen to target your home or place of business to make their roost it can become a challenge to get them to change their minds about it. Given their natural resilience to changing environments, it’s often the case that animal control specialists need to be called in to perform bat removal services.


As it turns out, we are such bat control experts here at Miller’s Rodent and Wildlife Solutions. And before we dive into the details about our bat control services, we’d like to remind you about what kind of rodent and wildlife control company we are here at Miller’s Rodent and Wildlife Solutions!


Our Sarasota Animal Control Services


Our rodent wildlife removal solutions involve a few steps, starting with trapping and removal, moving on to exclusion and ending with prevention so you never have this problem again. Whether your issue concerns bats, rats, raccoons, snakes or opossum we are focused on effective yet humane trapping and eviction methods. We adhere to all state regulations, meaning that we will use minimum necessary force to get the job done in a safe way. Now, no two situations are exactly alike, which is why we will use one-way trapping cages, netting or physical capture to make sure the wildlife in question is appropriately dealt with.


Once They’re Gone, We’ll Make Sure They Stay Gone


The next step is exclusion and prevention, which involves the services and tools needed to keep animals from returning to their former abode. Different animals require different measures to ensure this doesn’t happen. For example, raccoons will leave pheromones behind after they’ve been removed from an attic. This attracts others of the same kind to your home or place of business, which obviously is not a good thing. We’ll employ measures to remove these kinds of airborne communication in addition to taking a full scan of your home to see if there are any potential places of entry that should be addressed. We’ll leave no stone unturned, blocking and repairing any possible entry-points. Once the animals have gone, we make sure we do everything we can to keep them out.


Now On To How To Remove Your Bats


Our bat control methods do not involve extermination using poison (as that practice is inhumane and illegal). Instead, we utilize a sophisticated approach that includes eviction, exclusion, and prevention. We want to conserve the bat population in Sarasota County and beyond, because bats are wonderful creatures that perform an essential duty in the balance of things — they are nature’s best bug control. Bats love feasting on mosquito, which we think that we can all agree is a good thing.


Below you’ll find our three-step approach to professional, effective, and humane bat control:


Step One – We’ll do a complete inspection of your home or commercial structure in order to identify areas of entry that the bats are currently using. In addition, we’ll scour the premises to find any other possible areas that they might be inclined to use in the future. Common areas of entry include eaves, fascia boards, attic vents, and roofing tiles.

Step Two – Once we’ve completed our identification process, we’ll repair all areas of entry and exit, excluding the primary exit point. This is to make sure the bats have an escape route. Then we use exclusion devices like nets, or something called bat funnels that get placed over the main exit points. Used in tandem, these measures make sure that the bats can naturally leave their colony without being able to make their way back in.

Step Three – It takes about a week for all bats to exit the home in question. After this takes place, we’ll take our exclusion devices down and repair the primary place of exit. Thorough as ever, the bat control experts at Miller’s Wildlife Service will make sure that all areas will be inspected to make sure that nothing has been compromised. We’ll also include a one-year warranty for peace of mind, so be sure to ask us about it when the time comes.

Sarasota Bat Control Summary


Complete bat exclusion and prevention services ,Humane bat eviction and bat control services

Whether you’ve got bat problems, rat issues, or a raccoon nursery in your attic, Miller’s Rodent and Wildlife Solutions started with the idea that there is a better way to perform rodent and wildlife control. With our three-step approach to rodent and wildlife removal, we have you covered with safe and effective methods. Call or text us today at 941-302-6009 for your inspection and estimate!

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