Tips for Adding Bat Houses to Your Property

Posted on March 29, 2019 by virginia

Now that you have made the wonderful decision to add bat houses around your property, your first step is to decide between buying and construction. You can choose to make your own bat house, using several helpful bat house blueprints and templates available online; or, you can choose to simply purchase pre-made bat houses that are specially-designed with the highest standards of safety for bats and the environment. If you do decide to make your own, be sure you follow the guidelines for doing so, as bat houses require several special features and dimensions in order for them to be humane, as well as, safe for the surrounding environment.

Continue reading to learn what else you need to know about installing bat houses on your property, including who to call for 24 hour emergency bat removal service.

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When to Install Bat Houses

If you plan on using night-vision cameras to capture beloved bat activity on video footage, you will want to install your bat house once the weather is warm, usually around June or July. Not only is this when bats are more active, it is when their food is more active, like mosquitoes, gnats, flies, moths, and more. If you install bat houses now, you are still doing a great service for the local bat populations in your area, so continue with your plan if you already have one!

Where to Mount Bat Houses

The location of your bat houses is a vital part of ensuring safety and function for you, the bats, and the surrounding environment. Too close to your house can pose nuisance bat risks, while too far can take away from your personal enjoyment. Furthermore, mounting them in improper areas can pose additional risks to the bats, as well as, the surrounding trees and wildlife. So designate an area on the perimeter of your property, preferably near a large body of water, like a creek, river, steam, or pond.

As for actual installation, it is important to never mount bat houses on trees. Not only do branches and foliage make it more challenging for bats to land and take flight, the bat houses do not get enough sunlight, making them too cold for bats. Bat houses need around 6 to 8 hours of sunlight each day. Also, bats are more vulnerable to predators that sit in trees. Instead, they should be mounted on wooden posts, steel poles, pivot poles, or on the sides of buildings. And be sure they are at least 20 to 30 feet from tree branches.

How to Manage Nuisance Bat Problems

Call Virginia Bat Pros at 804-729-9097 for safe and humane bat removal and control assistance in Old Dominion. We serve all of Virginia with 24 hour bat removal, as well as, numerous residential and commercial bat exclusion services, such as bat cleanup and restorations for bat damages. We even provide insurance work! Contact us at 804-729-9097 to request a free estimate, anytime.

Where to Get 24 Hour Bat Removal in Salem County

Posted on March 22, 2019 by virginia

Here at Virginia Bat Pros, our licensed and insured specialists provide safe and humane bat removal and control services in Salem, Virginia and its surrounding counties. We use a concentrated approach involving environmentally effective and humane methods to eliminate bats and prevent their return. This means you can feel good about protecting bats, and still protect your home and budget too.

Continue reading to learn what our bat control professionals can do for you, regardless of day or night!

Salem Bat Removal and Control Services

We offer numerous bat removal and control services, including extraction, exclusion, proofing, cleanup and restoration, inspections, estimates, guidance, and even 24 hour emergency service! With more than 10 years of hands-on experience and a long list of satisfied clients, you can trust that our work is safe, effective, and reasonably priced. We even work with a number of homeowners’ insurance companies to repair and restore properties damaged by bats.

As a licensed and insured company who provides a written guarantee with all our work, you will feel confident knowing your valuable asset is in the hands of trained professionals. All of our work comes with a written guarantee, and we are happy to provide on-site quotes, anytime. So when it comes to protecting your asset from nuisance bat infestations, we are the professionals to trust for environmentally effective solutions you can afford.

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In addition to Salem, we also serve all of Virginia, including Richmond, Petersburg, Short Pump, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Virginia Beach, and all of their surrounding areas. When you hear noises in the attic, or spot some suspicious animal droppings around your window seals, it is time to give our licensed and insured specialists a call for safe and professional Salem bat removal and control solutions you can trust.

Call 804-729-9097 to speak with one of our licensed bat control specialist about your bat problems, today. We serve all of Salem County, including all districts near the

Learn How Bats are Nature’s Pesticide

Posted on March 11, 2019 by virginia

Thinking back to the post-World War Two era, farmers were keen on using DDT, a “first-of-its-kind” pesticide at the time. Although it was moderately effective at protecting crops and even preventing malaria, the dangers of DDT pesticides were soon discovered. New alternative pesticide products now exist, but they still pose certain hazards to our surrounding Eco-systems and planet as a whole. To make matters worse, according to an article written by Dr. Michael C.R. Alavanja, even to this day our country is using an average of 1 billion pounds of pesticides each year for crop protection.

For these reasons and more, we need a new solution to pesticide; one that will not cause our planet any more harm or pollution. A great place to start is to protect and preserve our local bat populations. Why bats? What do they have to do with pesticide? Well, bats are nature’s pesticide! Continue reading to learn why!

Bats and the Eco-System

Bats are known as filthy, scary, flying rodents that will attack and suck the blood of an innocent victim. The reality is, bats have been given this reputation through literature, media, and more. The truth about bats is that they are harmless, for the most part, and will not attack you or harm another person unless provoked or attacked themselves. Although they are destructive to our properties in cases of infestation, bats are actually vital parts of our surrounding Eco-systems and even our local economies. Mostly, their positive contribution to our local Eco-systems and economies is due to their natural pesticide tendencies.

Bats and Pest Control

You see, bats are not usually solitary mammals. See our last month’s blog, “Do Bats Live Alone or in Groups?” Instead, most bat populations native to Virginia live in large colonies, typically in the hundreds or thousands. And a single bat can consume more than 1,000 flying insects in a single night, which means a bat colony can eradicate millions of insects in just one night! Since there are numerous bat colonies in Virginia, that adds up to billions of flying pests hunted and eaten every single night! That is impressive, and FREE, pest control.

So what does this have to do with our local Eco-systems and economies? See our blog, “The Ecological Importance of Bats” to find out all the details regarding their amazing contributions. Basically, bats eat up all the pests that fly around at night, such as mosquitoes, gnats, flies, dragonflies, moths, and more, all of which destroy farmers’ crops. With this added level of crop protection, farmers can grow better, healthier produce, which can be sold to the community, which adds money to the farmers’ wallets and the local economy!

Doing Your Part

If you want to support local bat populations and help our country reduce it’s excessive use of pesticides, there are many things you can do. You can donate to various wildlife rescue and conservation initiatives, or you can even install bat houses on your property. Read our blog, “How to Safely Support Local Bat Colonies” to learn more ways to help bats.

Nuisance Bats

As mentioned, bats can also be a nuisance to property owners in the case of an infestation or interference. If this happens to you, it is important to never attempt to touch, harm, trap, or kill bats under any circumstances. Instead, do your part to preserve and protect the local bat populations by contacting a licensed and insured Virginia bat removal company for safe and humane service.

Virginia Bat Removal and Control

Call Virginia Bat Pros at 804-729-9097 to receive a basic, over-the-phone quote for bat removal and control assistance. We serve all of Virginia, including Richmond, Petersburg, Short Pump, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Virginia Beach, and all of their surrounding areas. We offer 24 hour bat removal, as well as, numerous residential and commercial bat exclusion services, such as bat cleanup and restorations
for bat damages.