Seeing swarms of bats continually hovering around your home every evening is one of the colossal signs bats live in your attic.
Do i have bats in my attic.
They don t like the cold and your attic is nice and warm.
If you live in an area with mild temperatures throughout the year the bats will stay year round.
They sometimes travel through walls or pipes looking for spaces to live.
Signs of bats in the attic.
Colonies of bats prefer quiet cave like spaces to roost reproduce and raise their young.
The bats will leave the attic over the next two or three days but will not be able to find their way back in.
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.
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.
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.
They can enter a house through a hole as small as 5 8 inch often near chimney flashing and under eaves.
They re nocturnal so they live their lives in darkness making your attic a prime piece of real estate for bats.
If you find one bat in your house there is a good chance that you have more.
Bats will hibernate in the winter if the temperature stays at around 35 to 40 f.
Some bats will follow the warm air and crawl inside the vent often making it all the way to the attic.