Wait what. It’s illegal here to move bats once they’ve picked a home. How do you prevent bat bug infestation
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 hours agofun fact if you have bats in your area, they also carry bat bugs, which are relative to bed bugs and they can also infest your house too. there is a theory that bed bugs evolved from bat bugs, also they look alike.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’ve often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new “pets” that are bat predators. Who wouldn’t want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
i mean they’re a protected species here. any action you take that it can be proven was intentional to get rid of the bats could technically land you in hot water. if it weren’t for the bat bugs that i just heard about i wouldn’t mind so much because they eat mosquitos and i like anything that eats those fuckers. our neighbor has fake shutters on their backyard windows. bats moved in there. it was fun watching them take off every night. their solution? have some construction in their backyard and oops it needs a jackhammer for 3 godsdamned bullshit months with no fucking days off.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn’t allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can’t get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn’t do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
By shooting them without moving, ideally before they pick your house.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This is the opposite of a fun fact. I’m going to sneak into your house and steal your fingers for typing it
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Wait till you learn that bats are one of the the most populous genus of animal on the planet, they even live in Antarctica
worldostats.com/…/bat-population-by-species/
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’m not sure what’s more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.