Other Bat Sign

This page provides some more photos of bat sign and bat damage. We hope it helps you identify your animal problem.

This disgusting image is what happens when you allow bat colonies remain in your home for decades. What you are looking at is the result of years of feces and urine finally working their way down from the attic, through the ceiling and down the walls of this person's home. Those black streaks are essentially the syrup like substance which consists of bat feces mixed with bat urine.

Before you go up into your attic and decide to start cleaning, make sure you learn about histoplasmosis and other diseases related to bats. (photo by Stephen Vantassel)

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at the right shows what happens over time when bats are allowed to roost in your attic. Starting in the upper left corner, just below where the lamp is attached to the rafter, you will see something that looks like stalagtites. They are stalagtites. However, these aren't made from water in a cave. They are the mineral crystals formed over decades of drying bat urine. The stalagtites you see here are brown to dark gold. If memory serves, the longer ones were up to two inches in length. (photo by Stephen Vantassel)

 

 

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