Do I Have Bats In My Attic

If you find one bat in your house there is a good chance that you have more.

Do i have bats in my attic.

They re nocturnal so they live their lives in darkness making your attic a prime piece of real estate for bats. If you live in an area with mild temperatures throughout the year the bats will stay year round. Again a gap can be quite small and bats will still fit through it. Once you can see there are no bats remaining in the attic seal the remaining holes and remove the exclusion devices.

Bats generally roost in high places such as attics. Rotten shingles gaps in the framing or space between the eaves and the walls can lead to bats finding their way inside. The bats will leave the attic over the next two or three days but will not be able to find their way back in. Some bats will follow the warm air and crawl inside the vent often making it all the way to the attic.

They don t like the cold and your attic is nice and warm. Signs of bats in the attic. They sometimes travel through walls or pipes looking for spaces to live. Bats will hibernate in the winter if the temperature stays at around 35 to 40 f.

Home owners with bats in their attics tend to see anywhere from 1 or 2 bats flying back and forth to swarms of them flying in and out of their attic all night long. Colonies of bats prefer quiet cave like spaces to roost reproduce and raise their young. They can enter a house through a hole as small as 5 8 inch often near chimney flashing and under eaves.