Bat Removal Attic Cleanup Restoration Guano Maternity Period

In most species of Chioptera, or Bats the female bats usually have only one offspring per year. A
baby bat is referred to as a pup. Pups are usually left in the roost when they are not nursing.
However, a newborn bat can cling to the fur of the mother and be transported, although they soon
grow too large for this. It would be difficult for an adult bat to carry more than one young, but
normally only one young is born. Bats often form nursery roosts, with many females giving birth in
the same area, be it a cave, a tree hole, or a cavity in a building. Mother bats are able to find their
young in colonies of millions of pups. Pups have even been seen to feed on other mothers' milk if
their mother is dry. Only the mother cares for the young, and there is no continuous partnership with
male bats.

Many laws are in place or being put into place in order to protect the contiuation of bat species. For
many years very little law or regulation was inplace and we have seen a decline in bat populations
die to bats being removed from homes and their young pups left to die unable to fend for
themselves. Maternity periods are related to the latitude or how far north your state is in North
America. Typically southern states start earlier and northern states start later.

Choosing to go ahead and have bats completely removed or excluded from ahome during maternity
season is a very poor decision. Motherless pups wander homes in the absence of their mothers
searching for them and usually end up all over the homes attic and wall voids and die. Imagine large
someone sticking five pounds of ground beef in various spots around your home rotting and the
expense of replaing the walls, insulation and deodorizing your home. Removing all bats, and their
young during a maternity season is at most a dice throw and the homeowner often becomes the
loser and at a considerable expense.

Listen to your bat professional, let them inspect your bat infestation and determine the best time of
year (Before April-May and After July-August) . State laws often dictate safe periods but a visual
inspection and counting flights is often the best guide to determine when the pups are flying.

Example: A bat colony which typically has fights of 90 or so bats leaving a home nightly begin to jump to
numbers closer to 180. This would indicate a maternal colony of 90 and then a pup for each mother
flying. Actual numbers will fluctuate daily and a week or so after an increase in flight sizes is normally the
best time to have a complete exclusion of your home. An inspection by a professional is always best
before attempting any exclusions.