Anyone know a good way to get a bat out of a bedroom? Window is now open, door closed.

[BSdetect]

[Skittles]

1. how do you know his friends won't join him

[dweller]

2. ...

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[fargone]

3. Bat removal

If it doesnt leave on its own, catch it in a fish landing net and dump it out the window

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

4. We had one fly into the loft once . . .

And we opened all the sliding glass doors and windows, turned off all the lights, laid on the floor and he/she flew out.

What was interesting was hearing the echo-location sounds of the bat to navigate out of the house.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

11. You know they really are harmless.

We had a bat house on one of the taller fir trees in the yard and we suspect that he/she missed the bat house and flew into the loft as the tree was close to the outside deck. Such a tiny thing. At first we thought it was a big bug.

[lagomorph777]

21. Good thing you like mosquitoes.

Bats are our first line of defense from them.

Personally, I prefer bats to mosquitoes. I guess I'm funny that way.

[BlackSkimmer]

17. They're wonderful animals.

Much misunderstood, maligned, and feared for no good reasons. Endangered simply because of widespread ignorance and superstitious. A shame.

When I became interested in caving, I learned so much about bats.

[brewens]

5. Is the light off? Try turning it off and see if he goes to whatever light might be outside. n/t

[Triloon]

6. You can clear the whole house with

Advice from Kenya - burn some cayenne pepper in a fry pan til it gets smokey. Turn off the burner and get out for a couple hours. Or just wait it out. It has no reason to stay long.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. That's horrible.

You want to make an innocent, terrified and lost animal suffer a horrifying death?

I used to see bats all the time while caving. I never felt the need to wear all that protective clothing to ensure my safety from such a tiny animal.

[LisaL]

19. Bats can be rabid.

The protection is because they could infect you with a lethal disease.

[BlackSkimmer]

25. Don't handle bats, and they won't bother you.

Do you suit up every time you see a raccoon?

Bats don’t attack people. People who contract rabies from bats have almost always handled them in some way.

[lagomorph777]

22. Bats eat trillions of mosquitoes.

I would never want to kill one.

[Bev54]

9. I don't remember how my parents got one out of their bedroom but I do

remember my Mom screaming, my Dad swearing and a lot of thumping and banging. I was about 5 and I thought my Dad was beating up my Mom. I was distressed.

[4dog]

10. If impatient, and you can see it, you could throw a towel over it and move it outside

Worked once a long time ago.

[doc03]

13. I had one in my attic I turned the lights on and opened the windows when it

got dark outside he left.

[Tetrachloride]

14. Bed sheets. hold in the air. they will likely avoid the bed sheet

I once captured the bat and got it outside.

they get tired and confused.

Put up a bat house if there’s a good location. less likely to get too far from the bat house

[2naSalit]

15. Turn on a radio or teevee...

In the room with the window open. They need to hear some sound bounce off the walls to find the opening.

[Easterncedar]

20. How does the story end?

I hope the bat found his way out.

[BSdetect]

27. We got rid of the bat by chasing it towards the open window. Probably did not need to bother chasing

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Glad you resolved that

About 40+ years ago when I was in college and still at home, I had a small brown bat crawl under a window AC and was flying around my bedroom in the middle of the night. What a production. I left the bedroom, closed the door, and the next morning went on a hunt to find it. I finally found it asleep hanging upside down in some sheer curtains that I had at the window. It was wild how long it took to find the little dark brown thing clinging upside down asleep in the folds of sheer white curtains, but I did finally spot it. .

If it is daytime, the critter is probably not going anywhere and is asleep but what I did was to get a large wicker laundry hamper (with a lid handy) and got a pencil and gradually started working it under its little toes as an alternate for it to grab onto and that finally woke it up and as it was flying around, I was able to get it to fly into the hamper, and then I promptly put the hamper up against the open window so it could exit. It took time but that finally got rid of it.