Tis the season…for bats

Well the maternity season for bats is under way.

We received a phone call on Saturday from a property manager of an apartment complex in Largo. She was frantic…stated 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.  Tommy arrived on scene and did an initial inspection of the exterior of the building and noted their entry point. He then proceeded into the attic to inspect.

Upon entering the attic he noticed a slight odor, which was the bat guano. Once in the attic he spotted 3 bats, 2 adults and a baby. That is all that was present at the time of inspection.  There was however evidence that the bats have been roosting there for quite some time. We explained that it is maternity season, which is from April 15^th – August 30^th, which means that the bats are having their young and cannot be disturbed during that time.   We 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.