Thanks for the replies!! I was kinda figuring they didn't work, but I knew you guys were the ones to ask!!!!
This storage room is almost like a bomb shelter. Actually our realtor told us it was!!! It's about a 20 X 20 block room with a wooden sliding garage door (OLD, OLD, OLD!!!). It has a patio on top of it and storage below it. It's a GREAT room. We love it. It holds the lawn mower, all the garden tools, one of the motorcycles, right now a golf cart, you name it, it's probably in there!!!! It's just not at all air tight, so the bats can get in just about anywhere. As far as where we have seen them, they have hung out on the wall, on the light bulb in the center of the room, on the sliding door (that one didn't last long - one slide of the door took care of him!!!
), in an old boat we used to have stored in there, just about anywhere they could find to hang or hide. But it's usually only one at a time. Thankfully!!!!
As far as relocating, that is NOT an option!!!!
I can't see that happening ANY time soon!!!!! We know they are good for keeping the mosquito population down but it's just a bit unnerving to go in the storage room, flip on the light, begin looking for whatever it is you are looking for and then hear "eek, eek, eek" and then think, "OK, where is it?" It's kinda creepy!!!
I have visions of it swooping down and attacking me. It has never happened but it still creeps me out. And yes, we have found bat dung on the floor and that also creeps me out. I would just like to find a way to get them to move on for good.
We have tried smoke bombs, firing up the lawn mower and leaving it running, firing up the old Harley and leaving it running (that should have run it out with the noise alone!!!!), and a few other things that I can't think of right now. They did fly out but came back after the smoke cleared!!!
The snake last year did the trick but it didn't fare too well itself. Hubby was mowing and when he put the mower away he realized about 10:00 he forgot to shut the garage door so he went down to shut it. He went to pull the garage door shut and it wouldn't shut. He pulled and tugged and pulled and tugged and said it seemed to be off track. He shined a light up in the track to see what the problem was and saw the snake up in the track and decided oh, I'm not messing with that!!!! (Or, something to that effect!!!!
) So he came back up to the house. He went back down a couple hours later and saw the snake dangling out of the track and thought it was dead and decided to mess with it in the morning. The next morning he went down to clean up the mess and the snake was gone!!!!!
But here's where the bat comes in!!!! The dead bat was laying below the door!!!!! The snake had killed the bat!!!!! A few days later he did find the snake, nearly cut in two coiled up around the kickstand of his Harley.
