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Bat Removal - Greater Birmingham, Alabama

The Bats of Alabama

A lot of people are afraid of bats. This is unfortunate.

The truth of the matter is that the bats of Alabama are overwhelmingly beneficial animals who are an important part of our natural environment, making bat removal an job that needs to be treated with respect and care. It's important to manage bats in such a way that keeps the bats out of our homes and buildings, but doesn't harm them in the process.

Let's take a few moments to talk about these these fascinating creatures.

First of all, bats are not rodents or birds. They're mammals of the taxonomic order Chiroptera. The Latin word roughly translates as "winged hand," which is a pretty good description of a bat's forelimbs. They have membranes between what would be the "fingers," which form wings when the bat stretches their "hands" out.

Unlike the "wings" of other mammals that can "fly" (such as flying squirrels), the wings of a bats allow them to take off and fly to higher altitudes, not just glide from high altitudes to lower ones. That makes bats the only mammals that can truly fly.

Why do Bats Fly, Anyway?

The reason why bats fly is also one of the reasons that they're so beneficial.

Bats go out every night and fly around looking for insects to eat, and they're particularly fond of mosquitoes. They eat hundreds or thousands of them every night, in fact, making electric bug zappers seem wimpy by comparison. Bats are like bug zappers on wings. Better yet, they don't burn electricity.

Bats are such good mosquito-eaters, in fact, that that some people even build houses for them to live in, just to keep the mosquito population down. The USDA even publishes plans for people who want to build their own bat houses, which you can download here.

Bat Removal and Exclusion in Alabama

Of course, the main reason why people put up bat houses is because we'd rather they didn't live in our houses.

The fact is that although bats do us a big favor with their ravenous mosquito-eating, they sure do make a mess when they get inside homes, barns, commercial buildings, bell towers, and yes, belfries. They're not the neatest tenants you could ever hope to have.

Bat guano (poop) contains organisms that cause diseases like histoplasmosis, and many of their parasites like ticks, fleas, and bat bugs can also transmit diseases. In addition, bats can transmit rabies (although they seldom get close enough to us for that to happen). Finally, they just make a huge mess of things. We've had jobs where we had to remove whole truckloads of guano from the house after sealing the bats out.

What all this means, of course, is that as much as we may love our Alabama bats, we draw the line when they move into our houses. No worries, though: Rid-A-Critter has the personnel and resources to humanely handle any bat control job -- no matter how big or how small.

Our bat-removal and bat-proofing program is built around respect for the bats and an understanding of how important they are to our ecosystem. So we don't "exterminate" bats. We use various ways to get them out of buildings (such as one-way doors that let them out, but not back in), and then we seal every single crack, crevice, and hole in the building to keep them out.

Finally, we clean up after the bats, removing the guano, replacing the insulation if needed, and just generally tidying up. (Please note that guano removal and insulation replacement, if needed, are quoted separately from bat removal and exclusion.)

The bottom line is that when you choose Rid-A-Critter to help you with your bat problem, you're choosing a one-stop solution that's guaranteed to solve your bat problem.

Bat Control Gallery

Here are some pictures of bat control and bat-proofing jobs that we've done in Birmingham and throughout our Metro Birmingham, Alabama service area.

Please call us today for an on-site inspection by a local bat removal expert.

 

In Oglethorpe, Montezuma, Vienna and Byron Ga. today quoting homes Wildlife Exclusions that has Bats and squirrels.
A crew bat-proofing a Trussville, Alabama home is installing screening over a triangular gable vent that allowed the bats into the attic. They'll also install an animal shield along the edges of the roof to keep other nuisance wildlife out of the house, as well as clean up the guano and dispose of the contaminated insulation.
Bat calls are coming in already with the mild winter in middle to south ga. Tifton, Vienna, Cordele, Zebulon, and Barnesville Ga. Just to name a few cities I’ll be today and tomorrow.
Our wildlife-management experts are shivering on a roof doing bat removal in Vestavia Hills, Alabama this morning. They're installing a Ridge Guard wildlife barrier that will keep bats and other animals out of the attic.
A bowl-shaped piece of stucco about an inch high by three inches across right under the soffit fell out of the wall, creating a gap that allowed bats into a house in Oxford, Alabama. Bat-removal specialists are installing a check valve trap over the hole to allow the bats out of the attic, after which they'll permanently seal it as part of the animal-exclusion stage of the job.
A sloppy job of flashing the roof left gaps between the sections of metal flashing that are the reason why our guys are in an attic doing bat removal in Helena, Alabama today. They're replacing the bungled flashing with metal animal shields that will keep bats and other nuisance wildlife out of the attic.
A half-inch gap between the diagonal roof trim and the shingles is the reason our wildlife-management specialists are in the attic doing bat removal at a house in Anniston, Alabama today. Bats are very slender animals with the wings folded and can get through very small gaps.
The roofer left a gap of about three quarters of an inch in the roof flashing, and that was all the invitation the bats needed to get into the attic of a house in Homewood, Alabama. Bat-exclusion specialists working out of our Birmingham office are sealing the gap and installing one-way traps that will get the bats out of the attic.
Good morning, glad to back, was out 2 1/2 months cause I broke my leg, time to quote some houses
We're almost done with a squirrel-removal job at a church in Hoover, Alabama. Churches are challenging places to animal-proof because of all the nooks and crannies and potential entry points for wildlife to enter the buildings.
We should be done with a Leeds, Alabama bat-removal and animal-proofing job some time early this afternoon. There are no more bats in the attic and the house has been made bat-proof, but there's still a ton of guano that needs to be vacuumed up and carted away. We'll also be replacing the contaminated attic insulation.
Lifting the edge of the shingle revealed a gap of about an inch between the roof sheathing and the fascia that allowed bats into the attic of a house in Birmingham, Alabama. Removing bats from the attic requires sealing any potential entry points, which will also keep other wildlife out of the attic.
In Tifton Ga giving a quote for a commercial building for squirrels and then headed to another commercial building in Americus Ga for bats. Ending the day in Macon Ga for a residential quote for Rats. Have a good day!
This afternoon one of our wildlife-control crews will be starting a Tuscaloosa, Alabama bat-removal job. Bat exclusion jobs usually take a few days because we have to allow the bats to get out of the attic before permanently animal-proofing it.
Men with ladders who know how to use them are busy doing bat removal and exclusion at a house in Birmingham, Alabama this chilly morning.
The corner of the flange of a metal roof vent became detached, and the fingertip-sized gap between the metal flange and the shingles allowed bats into the attic of a house in Trussville, Alabama. Bat-removal experts working out of out Birmingham office are attaching a one-way trap over the gap to prevent the bats from getting back into the attic when they return from feeding.
Scurrying in the attic, scratching in the walls sounds like you may have critters. Going to some homes today hearing these noises.
Wildlife exclusions for Bats, rats and squirrels are keeping us busy in Barnesville, Macon and Albany Ga.
This morning our wildlife-exclusion professionals are bat-proofing a cupola on the roof of a house in Birmingham, Alabama. We've removed bats from places like church steeples, radar towers, fire watch towers, cell phone towers, and yes, belfries. Pretty much any void area where they'll be relatively undisturbed can become a roosting area for bats.
The roof sheathing is becoming detached on the edge of the roof, creating a gap of about three-quarters of an inch that allowed a colony of bats into the attic of a Leeds, Alabama home. A bat-removal crew working out of our Birmingham office is on the scene taking care of the problem.
Headed to Vienna Ga after a customer referred they’re neighbors to us.
We should be all finished with a Tuscaloosa, Alabama bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job some time this afternoon. All the bats are out of the attic and the house has been made animal-proof. All that's left to be done is removing the guano and the contaminated insulation from the attic, and installing new insulation to replace it.
Technicians doing a Birmingham, Alabama bat-removal job have removed more than a ton of guano and contaminated insulation from the attic. They'll cart it away in filter bags this afternoon to be safely and responsibly disposed of.
The roof sheathing has started to warp and is pushing the shingles upwards, creating a gap between the shingles and the roof trim that allowed bats into the attic of a house in Trussville, Alabama. A bat-removal team from our Birmingham office is repairing the roof to close the gap as part of the wildlife-exclusion phase of the job.
We just finished replacing the attic insulation as part of a Leeds, Alabama bat-removal job. It's usually necessary to replace the insulation after removing bats from an attic because it gets contaminated with guano, which creates odor problems and health hazards.
An animal-exclusion crew from our Birmingham office is installing one-way traps at a Hoover, Alabama bat-removal job. The traps allow the bats to leave the attic to feed, but not get back inside. Once all the bats are out of the attic we permanently seal the gaps to bat-proof the roof.
This afternoon we'll be starting a Hoover, Alabama bat-removal and animal-proofing job. With bats, there's really no difference between the two because the bats are removed by sealing them out of the house so they can't get back in when they return from feeding.
This morning our technicians are installing a Ridge Guard wildlife barrier as part of a Birmingham, Alabama bat-removal and animal-exclusion job. The tough steel barrier will keep bats and other critters out of the attic for many years to come.
Helping the technicians today with a Bat Exclusion on Lake Jackson Ga.
On the way to quote a house in Powder Springs that has a Bat problem, then off to seal two houses with Rat/Mice problems in Atlanta. It’s going to be a busy day!
This morning we're installing Ridge Guard as part of a Hoover, Alabama bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. The steel animal barrier is replacing a warped, plastic roof ridge vent that had detached itself from the shingles and allowed bats into the attic.
A rectangular gap about half an inch wide by an inch high in the wooden trim right under the chimney cap allowed bats into a house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Our bat-removal crew is installing a one-way trap over the gap to prevent the bats from getting back in when they return from feeding. They'll be disappointed, but they'll cope.

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