Bats Attic Ireland

Their number is a locall one 1800 405000.

Bats attic ireland. The best tool is education. In northern ireland you can contact the northern ireland environment agency on 028 9056 9605. There are many different varieties of bats. This will leave you with an unbearable stench and an attic full of dead bats to dispose of.

Research the types of bats found in your area. Bats are nocturnal but they are pretty quiet in small numbers and most people don t notice any. The bat in the picture is an irish lesser horseshoe bat. If bats are living in your attic you should not try to trap or handle them because you could get bitten.

The species most usually found in houses in ireland are the common pipistrelle soprano pipistrelle and the brown long eared bat. Even if bats have left your attic it is an offence to block the roost bats return to the same place every year so empty bat roosts are protected. Bats in houses information leaflet. Have bats living in your attic excluded.

All irish bats are protected under the 1976 wildlife act and also by the european habitats directive. If you drive off the mother after she s given birth her babies won t be able to survive. If bats are regularly found flying in the dwelling part of a house it may be that there is a crevice where pipes or wires come down from the attic and bats are getting in that way. Here are tips about bats in the attic.

It is an offence to intentionally kill disturb handle or keep bats without a licence. In summer irish bats. A fully infested bat attic is one of the biggest and most challenging problems in the field of problem wildlife removal. The bats that are kept in both zoos are rodrigues fruit bats which come from a tropical island in the indian ocean.

Where a bat lives is called a roost. The only places in ireland where you can find bats that eat fruit are the zoos in dublin and belfast. There are 10 different species of bats in ireland some very rare others still quite widespread. Type time of noise.

If you come across bats in your attic don t panic. Find out when maternity season begins for your local bat population. The smell can be overpowering and it can also spread diseases. Some bats carry rabies which can be spread if a bat bites someone.

If you are aware that bats are roosting in your attic you should consult with the bat conservation ireland before carrying out remedial timber treatments insect control or rodent control that. Bats can leave droppings called guano all over an attic. Bat conservation ireland caomhantas ialtog na heireann is a charity dedicated to the conservation of ireland s bats.