Bat Removal Services

You can find several species of bats in Canada; however, the Little Brown Bat is the most common species. Bats play an essential and integral part in our ecosystem. They use their highly trained radar to catch night-flying insects and can consume up to half their body weight every night in moths, mosquitoes, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and flies. A single little brown bat, weighing around 6 grams, may catch up to 600 insects an hour when in its preferred habitat, near water. For Bat Removal Services, don’t hesitate to contact Ecopest today!

If bats were limited to only the outdoors, they would be one of our favourite animals. But bats tend to come close to homes and commercial properties, which can cause issues. Bats enter a home or commercial building for various reasons. They can use buildings as a temporary daytime roost, a nursery to rear their young, or, on occasion, a hibernation site. Home attics tend to be a favourite location for bats. If bats you find bats living in your attic during the spring or summer, it is likely a nursery colony of a common species. Female bats can bear one baby or pup a year in spring, and they often choose dark, private attics as maternity roosts because the warm, protected conditions are ideal for rearing their pups. Residents in the house can often hear the pups making distress calls to their mothers, who can identify their squeaking pup from amongst hundreds of others in a maternity roost. As with all babies, the pups depend on their mothers to feed them until they can take care of themselves by being able to fly and hunt independently. By late summer, they should be able to fend for themselves. In September, bats typically travel and spend 6-8 months in a winter hibernation site and don’t return until springtime.

Ecopest is a humane pest control service in Canada, providing bat removal and control services to any property that needs it. Contact Ecopest to learn more about the treatment of bats.