It’s time to just get rid of the entire roof.

Is that allowed because they have time to find another place before winter? Why is spring when it becomes illegal?

Probably because spring is when they have their pups- maternity season. If a bat excluder is used to allow them out and not come back in in the fall, they have to find another place to roost. If done in the spring, the young would become trapped and die.

[Florida’s bat maternity season is from April 15 to August 15. During this time, it’s illegal to block bats from their roosts.](https://www.crittercontrol.com/office-finder/florida/bats-in-florida/)

Lol do bats have better maternity leave protections than people do in Florida?

I can 100% guarantee you that with the right “manufacturerd” outrage this can be turned into a political voting issue.

Isn’t bat guano highly valued for certain applications?

It’s used as a fertilizer but artificial fertilizers took over as the primary form in the mid 1800’s. It’s still used on a limited basis but it’s no better than artificial.

Guano bowls! Collect the whole set!

Bats also carry a pest similar to bedbugs. They will infest your house and bite you too. They prefer bats, but will bite people. They look and act like bedbugs too. Additionally, bats carry rabies and have bites that are not even noticeable to some. Teeny tiny teeth. So you can be bitten by a rabid bat and not even know it…. Which is worse because well… you only find out when it’s too late to not die from it. Rare, but if you have any contact with bats it is advised to get rabies treatment (or vaccine prior is best) So bats in the house are no good. Bat box away from the house is ok

My main reason is the rabies risk. Bats can carry rabies, and have bites that are so small they’re barely noticeable. It’s basically recommended that if you find a bat in your house you should immediately get a rabies shot regardless of if you feel a bite

I was bit by a rapid bat at age 11. Had to send it off to the state to get tested. It hurt. I can’t imagine not noticing. That’s wild.

How fast was it?

Ha, that’s what I get for posting while I’m falling asleep.

Most rabies deaths in humans are from bat strains and the victim doesn’t remember being bitten by a bat.

Also they don’t go in your stomach anymore. It’s also important to note that the Milkwaukee Protocol is almost undoubtedly bullshit. Remember: as soon as you have symptoms, it’s already too late.

RABIES It’s exceptionally common, but people just don’t run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the “rage” stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you’re asleep, and he’s a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don’t even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won’t even tell you if you’ve got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you’ve ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache… Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you’re already dead. There is no cure. There’s no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you’re symptomatic, it’s over. You’re dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You’re fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain… Where your “pons” is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn’t occur to you that you don’t know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it’s a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they’ll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You’re twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what’s going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It’s around this time the hydrophobia starts. You’re horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can’t drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You’re thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that’s futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you’re having trouble remembering things, especially family. You’re alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you “drink something” and crying. And it’s only been about a week since that little headache that you’ve completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the “dumb rabies” phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You’re all but unaware of what’s around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it’s all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven’t really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there’s not one… fucking… thing… anyone can do for you. Then there’s the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it’s fucking EVERYWHERE.

One of my all-time favorite copypastas.

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I bought a house and it had a bat infestation. We could only have them removed at a certain time of the year once they migrated. That first fall we could sit outside and weren’t bothered at all. That next fall, I was like man there are so many mosquitoes this year. Then I was like oh yeah the bats are gone.

You can buy special housing for them (like you have bird houses only for bats). That way you can control where they’ll be and still enjoy less mosquitoes near your house.