You CANNOT Exterminate Bats Anymore Certain Times in New York State

New York State has a ban on removing bats from your house. Seriously. If you have bats in your house you cannot remove them. At least in a certain time frame.

It seems insane, but it is the law.

Bats are protected during a certain time frame in New York State typically during breeding season, which is in the Summer, so if you have bats that are active usually in the summer, you can't get rid of them. May 15 to August 15 is when you can not exterminate bats in New York State.

These species are listed as endangered, and it is illegal to harm or kill them. Special habitat protections are also in place to safeguard their roosting and foraging areas."

Have you ever had something go wrong or break at your house and then you fix the problem, only to find out that you did not actually do it properly?

Why does this keep happening to me?

Last year we had bats find their way into our house. We thought maybe when we put a new roof on the bats got it, because the chimney vent was missing. I put a new one on, and we did not see any bats. I figured that everything was good and we solved the problem.

Apparently not, because the other day we discovered a bat in the sink. It probably was trying to find its way out of the house, found a window, and crashed because it was just laying there tired out, still breathing. I mean, imagine waking up, being groggy, and then walking over to the sink to get a cup and all of the sudden you see a bat just laying in your sink. It's not the most ideal thing to find so early in the morning. With the help of some Tupperware, the bat was placed on the front lawn to fly away.