Bat Rescue

Anyone with bats coming into your place it's best to wait tell the fall to do an exclusion it's almost too late now to do them. May 8 we had the first pup show up last year. This year was colder than last year so would guess we might have an additional week for the first pup. There are several companies that exclusions Oklahoma Wildlife Control can do them 918-367-9060 get it done before the pups come out. Big Browns will be the first with a gestation period of 60 days Red Bats are 80-85. The bats could have impregnated themselves as early as March 22 looking at the temps on the graph. 2 months later they will have pups. If you do an exclusion with pups they will get trapped and you will have one smelly place when the pups die. Believe me, one dead pup can smell up a whole house.

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Crap had to show up sometime it hit Texas this year and has been in Missouri and Arkansas I just hope it stays up north although I've had tri-colored bats in rehab just don't need any with WNS.

White-nosed syndrome found in Oklahoma bats for the first time White-nose syndrome, a disease that kills bats, has been confirmed for the first time in Oklahoma.

just thought I'd pass this on to all the bat people on here. just updated by ecology chart it's also a feeding chart for adult bats. I'm estimating since insects have been seen at the beginning of February and we didn't have any really cold weather this year and extrapolating from last year's temps that pup season will probably be moved up 2 weeks from last year as seen on the chart. Of course, this is only for Tulsa area but you can make your own by plotting your temperatures for the last year from NOAA website. http://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=tsa you can get your temperature here just pull up your city. I have one of these for each species since feeding and weights will be different for each one. Castillo woke up early burned off his stored weight if he had any starting out. and nearly starved at 9.8 grams he's now 3 grams heavier and doing fine. When his weight levels off and he's able to fly good I'll release her so she can find that roost to have her pup/s.

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wow Mr Trammel did a really good article on bats. there were a few things I should have said like bats have been held in captivity up to 30 years. but it's actually better this way sometime we let the public know too much and then they want a pet bat. and no you can't have a pet bat get licensed and become a wildlife rehabber they need you. there are very few of us out there.to save these guys. We have 3 mosquito born viruses now (in case you forgot bats eat mosquitoes)
Westnile at it's peak killed 9,000 a few years ago, a couple years ago we were introduce to chikungunya., and now a new one that's a really nasty one in that it causes brain deformities in infants the Zika virus. and a 1 ounce bat eats 5 lbs of insects a year that translates to about 1.5 million mosquito sizes insects a year. It takes around 400 bats to protect a house so when you walk out and don't get torn up by mosquitoes. My smallest bat house is a 3 chamber holds about 700 bats my largest a 12 chamber (a neiborhood bat house) holds around 2640 bats and that times 1.5 million is a very big number. Even though bats always return to their roost, Bats can fly around 2 miles on average hunting for food so a large bat hosue your protecting a good size neighborhood as well. Chinese consider bats good luck, I say if you kiss a bat you get good luck all day. So become a rehabber and you can get good luck every day. https://goo.gl/cqe51G

Under his wing: 'Radar' nurtures bats at his Tulsa home, sets them free Bruce "Radar" Taylor operates Bat Rescue out of his south Tulsa home. He explained why bats are worth saving and he said bats get a bad rap because of the way they are portrayed in movies.