So far, what have you learned about Microbats.. What would you do in this situation? (whats the best way to get the bats out)
"In Rudolstadt, Stralsund and Stuttgart residents had uninvited nocturnal visitors in the past week. Young bats got lost in the apartments through open windows."
- mdr.de / fledermaus-verirrt-in-wohnung-100 (seems that video has gone)
Heike Wittmann lives in a new building in Rudolstadt. On Thursday night, she does what the weather fairy advised: all windows open wide to cool the rooms at least a little despite the summer temperatures. At midnight, she woke up with a sound: "I half-closed the light and opened the eyes and then saw in horror about me about ten or twelve bats flies around."
Coverlet over the head
Wittmann reacts, as many would react at that moment. Turn the light off quickly, duvet over his head and on the floor to the door ratted. The fast behind him and then in the hallway then straightened up again: "As I turn around, there are the next bats.They were everywhere, in the kitchen, in the living room, in the hall anyway and overall I guess that the 20, 25, maybe even 30 animals were. "
Her husband sleeps in the garden and is not accessible. So Heike Wittmann fights alone against the invaders, distributes the animals out of the bedroom and out of the kitchen - and then realizes that all the animals that had flown outside over the balcony and bedroom came in again through the living room window.
No help from the emergency call
In her distress, she dials the emergency call and later calls the rescue center. But there they did not want to believe her: "They have not really taken my story from me and told me that they can not send me the emergency services with Tatütata."
She did not expect that either, says Wittmann. Any help but already. With the morning twilight, the apartment is then again bat-free, but littered with unsightly legacies of the animals.
Annual Bat Invasion
The fact that bats get lost in apartments is not uncommon, explains Markus Melber. The managing director of the Foundation Fledermaus speaks of bat invasions, which always started around mid-August - then when the young would fledge. The first trips they would do with the mothers, because they were still inexperienced.
As a "building-dwelling species," young bats would search for cracks in buildings, and a tilted window would look like a neighborhood structure, Melber explains. "The animals fly into the room and usually can not get out."
Bat quarters too warm
In addition, it depends on the weather, adds the chairman of the Saxon Association for bat research and protection, Arndt Hochrein. The reason for the invasion when the window is wide open could also be "that the temperatures are sometimes so high that it simply gets too warm in the bat quarters and therefore rooms are always visited where it is cooler". In the bedroom of Mrs. Wittmann for example.
Plus, when a bat flies into an apartment, there are often enough others, says Markus Melber. He advises to stay calm in this case. "First of all, close the door so that the animals can not continue to move around in the apartment, then calmly open the window or all the windows in the room and try to animate the animals with light movements to leave the room. "
Thoroughly search
Then you should definitely search the apartment again thoroughly. And Heike Wittmann? She initially kept the windows closed, meanwhile secured against unwanted intruders. She still likes bats: "But as I said, not necessarily in my flat, please be nice and look for something different."
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