How To Keep Bats Away From Fruit Trees

Yeah I Think Netting Would Be The Best Way To Keep Them Away.

To protect your trees, take steps to protect your fruit early in the growing season. Branches that are touching wires, the home or other trees will. Should you encounter bat guano in any part of your home, there’s a good chance that bats have recently been roosting there.

You Could Of Course Use 40Mm Bird Netting But This Needs To Be Stretched Over A Frame And Checked Regularly So The Bats Don’t Get Entangled.

Anyway, good luck and keep up the good fight. Bird damage can severely limit your harvest and leave you with mutilated, inedible fruit. You can buy cinnamon in liquid, powder, or whole form.

Regularly Trimming Branches Will Keep Rodents Like Mice, Norway Rats, And Roof Rats From Approaching.

Use anything highly visible that moves easily or makes noise. Nets need to be pegged down to avoid pests getting under the net. (mosquitoes are called “mozzies” in australia) “nearly all bats thrive on an insect diet.

If The Bat Can’t Find A Place Close To You, Then They Move Further Away In Search Of A Home.

These are round in shape and give off an overpowering musky stench. On citrus trees you could try hanging old cd’s on the tree (fruit bats have excellent eyesight and diskike bright moving objects). Does cinnamon keep bats away?

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How to get rid of bats naturally. The nets are placed over the frame only when fruit has matured. They also do not like loud noise , go out and beat a few pots and pans every night and they will remember it and move on (might piss off the neighbors though) the old hanging cd's is a good one , that works as well , or anything that is shiny (we have a couple of small disco balls hanging in one of the fruit trees and it works