{"id":56,"date":"2009-06-04T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:32:18","slug":"tis-the-seasonfor-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/field-notes\/tis-the-seasonfor-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis the season&#8230;for bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Well the <strong>maternity season for bats<\/strong> is under way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58\" title=\"babybat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/babybat.jpg\" alt=\"babybat\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/babybat.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/babybat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">We received a phone call on Saturday from a <strong>property manager<\/strong> of an apartment complex in <strong>Largo<\/strong>. She was frantic\u2026stated that a tenant had just come in a reported that bats were all in her walls. So we sent out Tommy, our on-call tech, to assess the situation.\u00a0 Tommy arrived on scene and did an <strong>initial inspection<\/strong> of the exterior of the building and noted their entry point. He then proceeded into the attic to inspect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Upon entering the attic he noticed a slight odor, which was the <strong>bat guano<\/strong>. Once in the attic he spotted 3 bats, 2 adults and a baby. That is all that was present at the time of inspection.\u00a0 There was however evidence that the bats have been roosting there for quite some time. We explained that it is <strong>maternity season<\/strong>, which is from <strong>April 15<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 August 30<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong>, which means that the bats are having their young and cannot be disturbed during that time. \u00a0\u00a0We are going to be doing a follow-up inspection the first of next week to determine if that is all of the bats in this colony or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the maternity season for bats is under way. \u00a0 We received a phone call on Saturday from a property manager of an apartment complex in Largo. She was frantic\u2026stated that a tenant had just come in a reported that bats were all in her walls. So we sent out Tommy, our on-call tech, to [&hellip;]<\/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":[31,45,35,51,53,24,54,12,14,33,15,16,6,32],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-animal-control","tag-attic-rats","tag-attic-restoration","tag-baby","tag-bats","tag-florida","tag-maternity-season","tag-nuisance-wildlife-relocation","tag-python","tag-rat","tag-snake","tag-trapper","tag-wildlife-control","tag-wildlife-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}