Bats in the Attic

Bats love to live inside attics. Attics provide an ideal habitat to the colonizing bats of Florida. Attics are like big, warm, hollow trees, but better. Bats can, and prefer to, sneak through very tight gaps, usually about a half of an inch. Many homes have several such gaps - by vents, fascia boards, etc, and the bats fly right in. Once they find an attic that they like, they live there as a group, and they do not leave, ever. If left untreated, a colony will stay for hundreds of years and grow to massive size. Bats like to live in warm areas, sometimes up to 150 degrees, and Florida's attics are just perfect. They roost in the attic by day, and fly out at dusk. While in the attic, they generally don't fly around much, but they do crawl around, and they poop and pee all day, and leave your attic a royal mess!

Bats don't cling upside-down to the roof of the attic, and they are rarely seen flying around. Instead, they tend to cluster in groups, usually in tight gaps. Here we see a photo of an attic infested with over 1000 Brazilian Free-Tail Bats. In many cases bats enter an attic through many gaps, but this whole group was able to exit and enter one small hole only one half inch wide by four inches long! They made a huge mess in the attic with their droppings, most of which tumbled down a wall, and stunk up the building. I removed this whole group without harming a single bat, and I cleaned up all of the guano out of the walls. If you need bats removed from your attic in Florida, give us a call, and we will come inspect your attic.

All of the content and photos (even the background wallpaper) is by me, the owner of the Orlando Bat Removal company. We are based in Orlando and service all of central Florida, and in fact the whole state of Florida, including Tampa and Miami. We operate in the towns of Winter Park, Lake Mary, Longwood, Deltona, Sanford, Conway, Doctor Phillips, Metro West, Kissimmee, and more. If you have any questions about a bat problem in Florida, give us a call, and we can schedule an appointment to inspect the problem and get it taken care of.