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Your bat eviction/venting inspection may reveal a contamination or accumulation of bat guano within your structure.  Other than structural damage, the accumulation of bat guano can create biohazard that may put individual’s health at risk within your structure.  Your Bat Professional will convey to you at the time of your inspection the potential for individuals health at risk based on the amount of bat droppings, their location, risk of disturbance, and airborne contamination through HVAC units in your structure.

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Your bat eviction/venting inspection may not reveal all the accumulations of  bat guano within your structure.  Bats will typically roost in areas that cannot be readily accessed or visually inspected, such as wall voids.  You should understand that disturbing these inaccessible areas where guano may have accumulated is not necessary, unless those areas are likely to be disturbed as a result of construction, remodeling, renovation, repair or other circumstance.

Once the bats have been removed and all the necessary repairs have been made to prevent their return, you should really consider our bat biohazard cleanup services.  Bat urine, bat feces, hidden dead bats in the insulation and disease causing parasites (bat bugs) will be left behind.  Exposure to these bat biohazards can pose a serious health threat to you, your family, employees, citizens, customers, or your clients. Your Wildlife Professionals, Inc are trained and well equipped to effectively remove these bat biohazards and dispose of them properly according to OSHA and federal health regulations.

Air scrubbers with HEPA filters are used to prevent contamination of the living or work space of structures that have large accumulations of droppings.  When removing bat droppings we will disturb the droppings and create a lot of dust.  The access hole has to be open to allow for the equipment to be in the attic.  Without this air scrubber you will take a chance of contaminating the living or working space below the attic with the air-born fungus Histoplasmosis.   

Commercial grade gas powered vacuum systems with HEPA bags attached are used to remove the contaminated insulation and droppings. 

Commercial grade electric powered vacuum systems with HEPA filters are used for smaller dropping accumulations.

Your Bat Professional is often asked several questions about bats or bat guano health risks and the dangers of bat guano or dangers of bat droppings. Below is a list of the most commonly asked questions about bats and bat guano removal.

1.     What are the health dangers of bat guano or health hazards of bat guano?
2.     How to clean up bat guano?
3.     Is bat poop dangerous or is bat poop toxic?
4.     What are the bat guano dangers?
5.     What are the diseases carried by bats?
6.     What are the effects of bat guano on health?
7.     What is bat feces disease?
8.     What is the cost of bat guano cleanup?

So before you try removing bat guano from your house, you should learn about the effects of inhaling bat guano first. Bat poop is dangerous. One of the dangers of bats in attics is that they have the potential to produce a lot of bat excrement and bat urine. The color of bat guano is dark brown to black when it is fresh and light brown when it is dry.   Bat droppings, bat scat, bat poop, bat guano or whatever you want to call it can or will create a bat guano health risks. Bats produce more than three times their body weight in potentially toxic bat droppings every week during the summer months when they are active. Bats fly from late in the evening at dark to the early morning before daylight, so they need to ingest a lot of calories to fuel their several hours of flying. What goes in a bats mouth must come out and a lot of insect consumption equals lots of bat droppings. It does not take long for even a small number of bats to foul up your attic and interior wall voids if they are not dealt with quickly. Depending on the size of the bat colony, a nasty little fungus called Histoplasmosis that bats can excrete in their droppings and will grow in moist piles of bat droppings.  If you directly inhale Histo spores you could end up quite sick and depending on your age and respiratory health, you could end up blind, with permanent flue like symptoms or in extreme cases dead.

With all this in mind, the truth is that the majority of bat droppings found in attics and walls are harmless if undisturbed. The thought of bat guano in your attic may be disgusting, but no threat to your health. Only a small number of bats contract Histoplasmosis and excrete the fungus in their droppings. Still the fungus can’t grow unless the piles of droppings are very large. Small amounts of bat poop in your attic or walls is not a threat to your health unless the bat guano is disturbed. Undisturbed bat droppings are the safest bat droppings. You would have to directly inhale the Histo spores from the bat guano to even potentially get sick. In most cases of bat guano abatement is not necessary and a waste of money. Your Bat Professional can get rid of bats in attic and perform bat exclusion before the bats make too much of a bat guano biohazard, but your Virginia bat removal pro can only advocate the abatement of bat guano from attic and walls in some cases where the bats have left a lot of bat guano. Bat guano removal should only be recommended by your bat removal professional under the following circumstances.

1.     Large accumulations or piles of bat guano.
2.     You have a respiratory illness.
3.     You are pregnant or have small children in the house. 
4.     The attic space is being used for storage or a kids play room.
5.     There is ductwork in the attic that leads to the living areas of the structure.
6.     The heating and air system is in the attic.
7.     You are planning on renovating the space or are tearing out the walls/ceilings that may have bat droppings behind or on top of them.
8.     You are changing the insulation. Insulation companies will offer to remove the insulation fairly cheaply for you but they should not be used for this purpose as they do not have the proper OSHA training or safety equipment needed to remove Bat guano safely. (The proper HEPA filtered respirators, air scrubbers, vacuums, and suites similarly used for asbestos and mold abatement). If an untrained insulation worker or wildlife control operator becomes sick you could be liable.
9.     If you plan to sell the house or building, bat droppings typically become a red flag for home or commercial building inspectors.  Uneducated buyers are often told the worst case scenario and will want to back out of the contract regardless of the amount of bat guano.
10.     If you just cannot stand the thought of the bat droppings in your house or building.  It is up to the customer to determine if they want to live with the bat guano or have your Virginia bat removal professional remove them.
11.     Commercial buildings with workers or customers. 

If there is a small colony of bats in your house or building, you really have no need to worry about the bat droppings left behind. If you encounter a small amount of scattered droppings somewhere in your home or building, just pick them up with a wet paper towel and flush them down the toilet. Under no circumstances should you try to clean-out bat guano from the attic yourself. Big box store dust-masks and even full face respirators are not adequate equipment to safely work around bat droppings in confined spaces like an attic. Remember , undisturbed bat guano is the safest bat guano.

If you cannot afford to have it removed by Your Bat Professional, leave it alone.  Do not try to learn how to remove bat guano from attic.

Bat droppings do not smell. Bat urine has a very distinctive odor and often there are times that home owners do not even notice it.  If your bat removal professional can smell bat urine inside the living or working area of a structure, it means the bat problem could be out of control. During hot humid weather your bat removal professionals often get calls from customers whose houses or buildings smell because of a bat infestation that has not been dealt with. In most of these situations a major cleanup of bat droppings and contaminated insulation in necessary. Small infestations of bats usually do not produce enough bat urine odor that can be noticed inside and a localized clean-out can be performed. However bat populations grow quite large over time and it is best to have your bat removal professional get rid of bats before the bat colony causes damage to the structure.

Your Wildlife Pros have been providing bat guano removal services in Virginia since 1998.  We provide bat guano removal,  can get rid of bat guano in attic, and bat guano infestations in the counties, cities and towns of Alexandria, Arlington, Bedford, Blacksburg, Bristol, Charlottesville, Covington, Chesapeake, Danville, Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Hampton, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Loudon, Manassas, Martinsville, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Smith Mountain Lake, Staunton, Virginia Beach, Waynesboro, Williamsburg, Winchester, Wytheville, and Yorktown Virginia.

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