While bats are beneficial to the environment because they eat bugs, they are also a high-risk carrier of the rabies disease. Here are some contact places in the Northeast, should you decide to encourage any bats you have living in your home to move elsewhere.Please don't try moving the bats yourself, as your name may be next in the obituaries
Batworld.org, usually a good source for problem bats info. At the university of Maine, Dr. William Glanz (William.Glanz@umit.maine.edu) may be able to offer some advice or people to talk to as he has worked with bat behavior/foraging in the past. You might also check with Chewonki in Wiscasset, (207) 822-4711.
Try to organize a group to put up bat boxes? These would encourage the bats to relocate to these new homes. First, put the boxes as close to the original roost as possible. Make sure the bat houses are mounted properly. Next carefully move the bats and their pups from the building to the bat house. The persons doing this should have experience with bats and have had rabies vaccination (can't be too careful).
Try contacting Charles Hartley - 603-478-4444 of N.E. Wildlife Services, Exclusion and Rehabilitation - Antrim, NH 03440
Organization for Bat Conservation: contact Karen Morris at the Maine Dept of Inland Fish and Wildlife. Phone: 207-941-4473 (work) Email:karen.morris@state.me.us
Perhaps OBC (Organization for Bat Conservation) can be of help directly also- their phone number is: 517-339-5299 and their email is obcbats@aol.com.
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