Charlotte, NC There are almost 1,500 different species of bats worldwide. Almost 50 species are found in the United States. In the Charlotte Metro and surrounding cities such as Fort Mill, Gastonia, Lake Wylie, Belmont, Pineville, Mint Hill, and Matthews, the bats we mainly see are Mexican Free Tail Bats, Little Brown Bats, and Big Brown Bats Brown bats. Bats are actually mammals. They are the only mammal capable of flying. The smallest bat, weights about a penny and is called a Bumblebee Bat. This also makes it the smallest mammal. The largest bat is the Flying Fox with the wingspan of up to six feet! Bats routinely fly at 60 miles an hour and the fastest can fly up to 100 mph! Bats don't have too many natural predators. A few are owls, hawks, raccoons and snakes. Amazingly, black rat snakes will climb homes all the way up to the gable vent or attic space too feed on bats in their roost. Bats do have a major threat to the species with millions of bats dying from white-nose syndrome. We will explore white-nose syndrome more in a different blog. Bats are mainly nocturnal and over the course of one evening they can consume 1500 insects! They tend to live together in roosts, sometimes just a few bats and sometimes hundreds. Bats give birth to live young and actually feed them milk just like other mammals. They clean themselves by licking like cats and the baby bats are called pups like dogs.
Solocal Wildlife Removal can safely and humanly remove or evict bats and keep them out in accordance with NC Wildlife regulations.
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