Now you can provide exceptional bat exclusion services with Batcone and Pro-cone entirely suited for both both residential and commercial buildings. Its flexible construction with flange makes them adaptable to most surfaces. The Batcone and the new generation of Pro-cone Multi-Use Professional Wildlife Excluders (Pro-cone Corner, Pro-cone Round and Pro-cone Square), are designed to exclude multiple species from residential and commercial structures, including bats, sparrows, starlings, red squirrels, flying squirrels, and small rodents.

Recommendations for managing white-nose syndrome during the winter of 2009/2010 call for closing human access to caves and mines with bats newly affected with WNS and limiting human access to unaffected caves and mines, all in an area 250 miles beyond caves and mines with bats currently affected with WNS. .

Whether you build or buy a bat house, make sure the dimensions meet the criteria below. Following these construction and installation guidelines will greatly increase your odds of attracting bats. These ecommendations are based on 12 years of bat-house research conducted across the U.S, Canada and the Caribbean. Small, poorly made houses commonly sold in stores or any house improperly installed are likely to fail. Much more information is available in BCI’s Bat House Builder’s Handbook, available online at www.batcatalog.com...

Well-placed bat houses can attract bats to Central Valley farms RESEARCH ARTICLE by Rachael F. Long, W. Mark Kiser and Selena B. Kiser In an 8-year study from 1997 to 2004, we evaluated the use of 186 bat houses in rural areas of California’s Central Valley. We considered the bat houses’ size, color, height and location, and found that location was the main factor affecting bat use. Colonies of bats (generally mothers and their young) preferred houses mounted on structures such as buildings, shaded or exposed only to morning sun, and within one-quarter mile of water. In contrast, individual bats (generally males and nonreproductive females) were less selective in where they roosted. The overall occupancy rate for bat houses in our study was 48% for colonies and 28% for individual bats. Mexican free-tailed and Myotis bats were the main species using the houses, with occasional sightings of pallid and big brown bats. Bats occupied most houses within the first 2 years of placement...