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rhintransit
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how to discourage bats?
love the critters, they are wonderful, great insect control, but one or two has/have taken to hanging and eating in one particularly inconvenient spot
in my palapa. he/she/they have messy droppings and eating habits. I'd like to encourage them to hang around my place, but somewhere else. any
suggestions???
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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Osprey
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Hang a little piece of pitahaya cactus near the place where they nest. They will not come near that nesting site again.
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Packoderm
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Ceiling fan?
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toneart
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Cats and a catwalk infrastructure near the ceiling?
No? well then Osprey's suggestion would probably be the best solution. 
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Frank
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
Hang a little piece of pitahaya cactus near the place where they nest. They will not come near that nesting site again. |
How did you come up with this solution? There has to be a story.
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vandenberg
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Confuse 'em.
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Bob and Susan
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you must permanently seal off all bat entry points
you must break the path of entry
there is NOTHING made that will keep bats away
don't waste your time with "fruits"
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
there is NOTHING made that will keep bats away
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Shotgun 
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Bob and Susan
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i wonder...do they taste like chicken???
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tehag
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Bats
Inspection may reveal that much of that mess where they have eaten consists of c-ckroach parts. Small price for the service, IMO.
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LB
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We have taken branches for a thorny tree and attached them to the dark corners where they like to rest. It worked. Taught this by a local Mexicano.
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the birds in our palapa we attached bird netting to keep the birds from getting in and nesting this would work for bats also.
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Bob and Susan
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c-ckroach parts...what do they taste like???
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woody with a view
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a tennis racket would be an option....
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Marla Daily
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Bat roosting deterrent
Bat biologist, Pat Brown, taught us to hang pieces of lightweight plastic netting, such as cut up pieces of sun-cloth, over bat entry spaces on
vertical surfaces, and to
staple or attach the pieces only along at the top, leaving the netting hanging down. That way when the bats leave at dusk, they drop down and exit
safely, but they cannot re-enter, for they won't crawl up under the netting. We used it on a board and bat house and it worked like a charm. (Is that
why they are called bats??)
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Vince
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I have used the cactus method (a favorite of the locals) on Coyote Bay, but I found that hanging vertical pieces of fishline about 2 feet long all
over the porch keeps about 80 % of them away. They don't like to fly around the fine fishline. Keep it just above the head level so it won't spook
you at night.
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Pompano
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Hi Vince...you, Enrique, Stan, NOLS, and I show good results with the cactus methods. Sometimes the problem is not outside, however.
Once a bat got inside the house and was hanging on the kitchen wall...right above the chef's head. I knew it had happened from the intensity of the
screaming...I heard it clear down at Bean Rocks while at work getting our dinner.
I got out the paint sprayer and encased that sucker in white paint and covered the bat spots at the same time. Clever, no?
Another time a huge wolf spider and a bat were crawling, jumping and flitting around the house at the same time....but that story is for a different
time and involves nudity, shouts, broomsticks, and alarmed neighbors.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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woody with a view
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Another time a huge wolf spider and a bat were crawling, jumping and flitting around the house at the same time....but that story is for a different
time and involves nudity, shouts, broomsticks, and alarmed neighbors.
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OOOH!!! pray tell, amigo. tis getting late/slow......
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Skipjack Joe
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I'd be very careful if it was me....
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Bat Bites
Having lived in the Low and High desert for almost Forty years, I've been buzzed by the damn things too many times and I HATE them.
A short while back in the states, I once again had to chase two bats out of the house and my wife chided me for being so concerned.
Two days later, the local paper had a short story regarding a rabid bat bite. The story noted that there hadn't been a rabid dog bite recorded in San
Bernardino county since 1948 and a rabid cat bite for almost as long, but every year there have been rabid bat bites recorded. Last year there had
been eight and three so far this year.
Still long odds, BUT...............
I'd rather deal with the c-ckroaches.
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vandenberg
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That's the old Bill.
Anything to be controversial.
[Edited on 11-9-2008 by vandenberg]
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