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Not hard or costly. Watch outside at dusk to confirm their in/out route. Then buy, from a pest-control firm or on the net a one-way passage that you affix over the passageway, which lets them out only. Or you could make your own, using wire mesh like screening in a conical shape, small end facing out, or tubular with a one-way door in it.....
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Great advice from Auerbach. I have had bats living on the outside trim of my house. Common practice is for carpenters here is to shim the facia trim 3/4" out for the cedar siding to be pushed under leaving 1/2" by 6" bat cave all around the roof line of my house. A perfect bat cave.
The kind of bats we had only lived under the trim during the warm season as in the winter they migrated to caves. Before they returned in the spring we filled all the cavities with a black foam.
The bats love tight spaces as I described, we even had one or two nest in our patio umbrella when it was down and wrapped tight!
Bats have to drop to be able to fly, as I discovered years ago when I had one in the house, he flew into the bathroom, into the mirror where he had no traction and dropped into the sink where he was helpless!
You might be able to hang some plastic sheeting up after they leave at night, allowing for a drop location, for any that are left behind.
Once they are gone look for those narrow tight spaces they love to live in inside the poll barn and caulk them up.
Dennis
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Truly asking here, would a radio and say strobe light at night help? With some of the newer so call music there has to be something bats find tasteless.
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Sharper Image used to sell a radio frequency device that supposedly deterred bats from living in the attic.
Before I sealed up all the points where they were living I put a very powerful stereo amplifier and a very large speaker up in the attic at such a high volume level that I eventually blew the speaker.
We ran it during the day when we were not home, fortunatley we are far from neighbors. Net impact no change in bat population.
The device Sharper Image was selling and others like it I believe are high frequency, so the human ear cannot pick it up.
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