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The Story of Matriarchal Bat Colonies...

Bats in attics are most common in summertime,
starting in April. These are most often matriarchal
colonies and often an extended family of sisters,
aunts, grandmothers, daughters, and nieces.

One thing about bats, as far as they’re concerned:
The more, the merrier!

A common scenario goes like this... It's a lovely summer evening. The sun is beginning
to set. The mosquitos are coming out. The homeowners are relaxing in the back yard.
And suddenly, they spot black figures or shadows like small, quick skydivers leaving
their house and then returning to it.

These are no ordinary skydivers, though. These are matriarchal bats coming out of their
happy attic roost to do their part in controlling the mosquito population of New Jersey.

Mommas will use an attic as a nursery because when pups are born their hair is very
thin. A warm attic will act as an incubator. When mom goes out to get food in the
evening and has to leave her babies, the pups (as bat babies are called) are kept warm
by the heat in the attic. (If you have found a bat in the living quarters - seperate from the
attic - or basement of your home, it is likely you have a bachelor bat.)

There are some "positives" associated with a matriarchal colony. For one thing, they
tend to be very punctual in regards to when they come in or go out, because their
body's are getting ready to take care of pups and instinct takes over. This is a "pro"
because it makes it much easier to plan your home's bat abatment job.

But there are also some negatives associated with the matriarchal colony. There is a
period every summer when you can’t do any kind of bat abatement on a house due to
the new pups, who cannot yet fly. If you have flightless bats in the house and then
seperate their mothers from them with a bat exclusion, there are several possible
scenarios... none of them pleasant.

A) The babies will die - and if there are enough of them you will have an odor. Since
bats tend to congregate in tight spots, you could spend just as much money cutting
open your walls to remove the babies as you have paid for the bat abatement;

B) Some momma bats don’t take this seperation lying down and will go to great
extremes to get back in house (i.e. your front door);

Or C) You could wake up in the middle of night to see a couple of baby bats crawling
across your floor looking for momma (or worse, step on them in the dark)!

During this nursing time, all bat abatement programs have to be put on hold. But that
doesn’t mean there isn’t prep work to be done on your house so that when the babies
take flight, the abatement can be completed in a timely fashion.

Abatements are safe in New Jersey up until the first week of June and then again after
August 1st once the babies are flying . In general, All Wildlife Removal Service has
a policy of performing no bat valve jobs during the last two weeks of June and
throughout all of July.

To learn how All Wildlife Removal Service gets the bats out of your house for good,
click here.

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