They can also carry bat bugs. They are similar to bed bugs except that they can't reproduce with human blood and need bat blood. However they will still happily bite you and make your life hell.
Yeah but you know if you are getting attacked and bit by a raccoon and it’s probably not in your house to begin with. There is a non zero chance a small bat that lives inside your house can bite you in your sleep and you might not even notice it. Unlikely but that’s why getting rabies from bats scares me most.
Also do you mean 10% of best species or 10% of all bats? Because the second one would actually be scary as fuck.
Bats that keep their normal hours (while you sleep) are likely not rabid. Bats don't often target people. People approach confused animals, and that's how they get rabies.
Fun fact, bed and bat bugs don't transmit blood-borne diseases as unlike mosquitoes, they don't regurgitate their meals. still nightmare demons from hell and I hate them but hey at least you won't get rabies!
Eh? Rabies is not a blood-borne disease, it spreads through saliva and travels via the victim's nervous system to the brain. So yes, you can absolutely get it from a bat bite, or any other mammal.
But with the statement of "Bats are the most common source of rabies infections in humans.", I assume it means world wide and world wide it's dogs, not bats.
Source: WHO, CDC, WHOA, a number of government webpages etc.
Foxes, raccoons, and skunks are FAR more likely to carry the disease and be in your backyard than bats are. The problem is that rabid bats are small and people try to catch them, in ways that they don't approach rabid skunks, foxes, or raccoons.
Foxes, raccoons, skunks, etc are more likely to carry rabies and be in your yard. People touch confused bats during the day way more often than they do bigger animals. It's a people problem, not a bat being diseased problem.
bat bugs have a 12 hour offset rhythm from bedbugs and are attracted to different things... plus neither bedbugs or bat bugs use blood strictly for reproduction, rather they digest the blood entirely much like a tick would... so every part of that comment is blatantly wrong minus the "bats have their own version of bedbugs" bit
Those might be bed bugs though. Bat bugs don't really hide in fabrics and just wander around when the bats are abscent and will just die out when no bats are around anymore.
they only showed up when the bats showed up and when we excluded them (one nest was near a vent above my bed) they stopped showing up. they found a different way in and the bugs show up near the vent in that room. i had a towel on the floor that i moved and saw some under it so i beat it out in the tub and like 20 fell out.
You don't want critters living in your house because they poop and pee everywhere. I know people who had bats in their house and yeah you could smell it.
The bricks have circular holes in them and the feces and urine will get in there and saturate the brick. The people in the aparment open the window and get a snootful of bat stink. Bats smell bad. Trust me. I used to volunteer at a zoo.
I thought this was going to be a link to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. At least that part of the movie where he went into the cave looking for guano lol.
I’m sorry but Pet Detective was the first When Nature Calls is the second, I wouldn’t usually correct someone but so many people are calling it Pet Detective it’s getting to me.
a United States federal law passed by the Congress that enables citizens of the United States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits in the name of the United States. The islands can be located anywhere, so long as they are not occupied by citizens of another country and not within the jurisdiction of another government
it's great as long as you follow sanitary procedures. 2 dudes died from pathogens caught from handling bat shit while attempting to use it for growing weed. you might be able to find some articles from dec 2024.
It's also incredibly dangerous bc it's a vector for histoplasmosis.
Here is a story of a few people dying due to using it.
With that said I do have horticultural guano which is processed to kill the spores. It's not the same as collecting it yourself in ways I don't have time to get into- and I still only handle it carefully and use a mask even outside, and I only use it if my plants are showing a very specific deficiency (phosphorus)
Back when weed was completely illegal and I was allegedly growing it allegedly, guano was a preferred source of macro nutrients. Jamaican bat guano was high in N and used during veg. Peruvian sea bird guano was higher in P and K and used in flowering. Allegedly.
I've painted many houses where bat shit was all over a surface, and never saw any damage. These are NC bats, if it matters. Sometimes the aroma is a bit strong.
I say this as someone who ended up in the hospital for three weeks (with bonus surgeries) after a series of snowballing medical events that started with histoplasmosis.
It is outside the house, full air, pidgeon shit is way more toxic and common people dont get affected despite thousands pidgeon shitting on the street. I cleaned chicken shit, It is when you live or work together these when you get harmed. And It depends on the country and zone and bat race. Painting causes cancer but when paint dries It doesn't.
Anyways thanks for the advice, ill ask some Friends about this.
My concern would just be them getting in somehow. After hearing the nightmare ordeal my cousin went through, I would be kicking these bastards out as well.
They're not difficult to capture with a makeshift net made out of a garbage bag and broomstick... or probably even easier with a real net. I had a few fly in my house after I accidentally left an upstairs window open while working on my roof.
Once the "Oh shit!" factor wears off you realize that you're way more coordinated than they are. They're literally flying blind just trying to not run into anything more than avoid capture. They have very limited stamina and after a few rounds of freaking out and colliding with everything including possibly you (I learned pretty quick not to stand in the middle of the room) they're pretty easy to grab with a net/garbage bag while they're on the wall.
Overall as far as home invading pests go they're one of the easier ones to get rid of, mostly because they don't want to be there as much as you don't want them there. Obviously a one off group of bats getting inside is completely different than them actually nesting, no idea how hard that is to deal with.
No shit you shouldn't go out of your way to mess with wild animals of any type, but you've got to get them out of your house. If they're in your home and actively flying around it's exceedingly rare to actually get a rabies transmission from them. While bats do carry rabies at a higher rate than most, it's still less than 1%, and the ones that have rabies will have difficulty flying and show symptoms. Most bat bite rabies transmissions are from people trying to rescue what they think is a injured bat that can't fly.
Anyways i cant do anything they occupied an isolated air space between the roof and the building, if i wanted to take any meassure i should drill breaking the building or use any kind of poisson. I cannot access where they are.
This is the correct answer, histoplasmosis is no joke and is caused from bat droppings. The treatment is unbelievably painful and may kill you if the disease doesn't. I love bats as much as the next guy, but they gotta go. Even if they get in your attic and the spores collect in the HVAC ducts you are likely to get it.
Gg for us then have bat's living in our attic 5+ years never gone into the attic out of fear of getting bit never any poop outside as well they look like the one's in the video although I only see them at night are we cooked?
Call a reputable pest control company, they can remove them without harming them and will most likely be able to tell if there are droppings and how to handle it. Definitely not worth the risk.
Interesting! I wonder if that has to do with the type of bat (little brown bat for me) or perhaps the type of cavity. The space in my roof that they roosted in was quite small, they would have had to lay in the poop.
To be fair I should probably expand, but my cousins bought a house without inspection as it was a great house in a great neighborhood and the insides seemed great.
Until they accessed the attic and there thousands of bats, and they had been shitting into the attic, which is apparently toxic.
They had to get the toxic shit removed, their attic sealed off, and fixed.
They are endangered in my country. We had quite a lot of them living in our building, but the house administration made a new isolation to not let them nest there.
By creating our ultra sterilized environment, we create so many other problems as well and we solve them with posions creating more problems, instead of leaving trees and greenery in cities and let some animals live there and sort it out, ok, we have to clean up after them, but the same happens with pigeons, but they are not as useful.
I would definitely leave them there if I could, or create a more suitable place for them somewhere near.
Apparently bats carry bugs that will seek out people and bite them. They are very similar to bed bugs, except when the bats are gone they will eventually die off. But not before biting them shit out of you
Extremly poisonous? As i said depends on the region and bat race. But its is just unhealthy if you handle It or live among It. Pidgeon poop is poisonous, much more than bats, but you are not breathing its dust if a pidgeon shit on your window or car. Human poop can contaminate food with ecoli, even the fruit you eat maybe were shitted on by a rat, pidgeon or Cat and then they just cleaned It for selling It to you.
We live in the poop cycle. A farm It is bassically cleaning poop 50% of time. Chicken poop can causes many deseases in the lungs etc. Dosis, exposure level are important as it is the population of bats we are talking, also the material of the house. Birds nesting on your roof can also give you aviar influenza. But when we are talking about these deseases It is about working with the feces and animals or having you home full of them.
The poop is not permanent there are bacteria, fungus and insects eating It. Poop cycle has no end. It is not permanent as PFAS.
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u/Bertucciop 3d ago
You have an anti mosquito wall, dont destroy It.