{"id":150,"date":"2010-10-26T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:31:29","slug":"got-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/field-notes\/got-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Bats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-153\" title=\"Florida brown bat infestation in the attic.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bats.jpg\" alt=\"Florida brown bat infestation in the attic.\" width=\"140\" height=\"298\" \/>When people think of<strong> bats<\/strong>, they usually imagine them in caves. But <strong>attics and other dark places<\/strong> can offer an appealing <strong>home for bats.<\/strong> If you have an <strong>infestation<\/strong>, they might even <strong>move into the walls<\/strong>.\u00a0 A family found<strong> hundreds of bats<\/strong> living in the walls of their Houston, Texas house over the summer.\u00a0 And unless you have an<strong> infestation<\/strong> like that, you might not even know you have <strong>bats in your home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t really know they have a<strong> bat problem<\/strong> until they see them coming in and out of the house. Or when they&#8217;re selling their home and an inspector goes up in the <strong>attic<\/strong>,&#8221; says Jeff Norris, of <strong>Nuisance Wildlife Removal<\/strong>. And if you&#8217;re lucky enough to only have<strong> one bat<\/strong>, &#8220;You should play the lotto,&#8221; jokes Jeff.\u00a0 Well, not exactly, but you can relax a little knowing that at the very least that<strong> bat<\/strong> is a worthwhile defender from other pests. &#8220;<strong>Bats eat their body weight in insects in one night<\/strong>,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p>If you think you might have an<strong> infestation<\/strong>, call a qualified professional like Jeff Norris at Nuisance Wildlife Removal to take care of the problem for you, so you don&#8217;t end up contracting <strong>rabies<\/strong> or, worse, <strong>Histoplasmosis<\/strong>, a <strong>lung infection<\/strong> transmitted by <strong>airborne spores<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And, Happy Halloween..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People don&#8217;t really know they have a bat problem until they see them coming in and out of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}