Bats In The Attic In Summer

Seeing a bat in your home isn t always a sign that you have a bat problem but it should compel you to investigate the other signs we ve mentioned.

Bats in the attic in summer.

Fascinating as these nocturnal animals may be though bats are wild animals and should always be approached with caution. If you are getting bats in your home and you do not regularly leave windows open at night there is likely a summer roost in your walls or attic and you need to have a bat exclusion completed. They are called a maternity colony and they are in your attic in order to have a safe place to give birth to and raise their young. Bats will hibernate in the winter if the temperature stays at around 35 to 40 f.

When bats roost in an attic they sometimes move around become trapped or waddles along to sections of the attic that can lead right to the common areas. Their presence is generally beneficial to humans because they help control many insects and mosquitoes during the spring summer and early fall by eating them. In late summer inexperienced young bats may fall down a chimney fly down an attic stairway fly through an open window or land on the ground. If it gets colder than that the bats in the attic will migrate out allowing you to seal up cracks and other entry points once they leave for the season.

The bats in your attic are actually all females. After a few very hot summer days an attic may become too hot for the bats forcing them out and sometimes into the living quarters as they search for cooler places to roost. Bats are unique creatures and the only mammals that can truly fly. Colonies of bats prefer quiet cave like spaces to roost reproduce and raise their young.

Why can t i remove the bats in the summer. If you live in an area with mild temperatures throughout the year the bats will stay year round. Bats live a very long time and they stay in the same place year round conditions permitting or they migrate and return each summer. They re nocturnal so they live their lives in darkness making your attic a prime piece of real estate for bats.

Thus the colony size roughly doubles at birth and when the baby bats start to fly you notice twice as many bats. The female bats usually give birth to one baby bat each summer.