Posted by david - or on December 24, 2013 at 17:56:37 from (208.67.204.213):
In Reply to: WAY OT: Bats posted by JDNewbie on December 24, 2013 at 15:37:42:
It"s a big brown bat. They are the one species of bat adapted to hibernate in freezing temperatures, and the only one typically found in buildings in northern latitudes in winter. I have hundreds of them hibernating right now in the rafters of my big old gambrel barn.
Best thing to do is put him back in the attic. Put him where mice and rats can reach him, as he"s pretty defenseless.
He/she survives by eating insects, and there aren"t any to be had in your locale at this time of year. You don"t want him to wake up due to being in the warm house, because he"ll starve to death. Once the weather warms back up he"ll wake up and leave the house. He can"t survive in your attic in summer, it"s too hot.
Plug up the hole(s) he"s using to get in once spring/summer rolls around and he moves out.
There"s a good discussion of bat migration here: http://batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=503
It turns out most bats survive the winter by hibernating in caves. They "migrate" north, south, east, or west to their favorite cave, often 100 or 200 miles.
Only a few species go all the way to Mexico or other tropical places.
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