If you have bats living in your attic or wall voids, you’ve probably been waiting for this time of year. Now is the time for bat control in most areas of the Northeast. Bats are beneficial animals that are protected by federal law. For most of the spring and summer, you cannot evict bats from
VIEW MOREMost bats do not carry rabies, but most of the human rabies cases each year in the US are the result of contact with bats. (http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/bats/education/)
VIEW MOREQ. My neighbor just told me that she found a bat in her upstairs bedroom last week! I’ve seen some bats flying at night outside in our yard. Should I be worried that the same thing could happen to us?
VIEW MOREQ. We were sitting on our deck last night enjoying the warm evening when we saw what looked like a couple of bats swooping over the deck near our yard lights. Then we saw one crawl up under our roof overhang and disappear! Do you think we could have bats nesting in our attic!?
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The little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, is one the most common bats in North America. But it and other species of bat could possibly become extinct from white nose syndrome (WNS). WNS is a fungus that grows on the nose, muzzle, ears and wings of bats during hibernation. Large numbers of bats are infected, and perhaps a million have already died.
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