Hi! My sister has fruit bats on her fruit trees. How does she get them to go
away? She does not want to kill them!

(Eleanor484) writes:
Hi! My sister has fruit bats on her fruit trees. How does she get them to go
away? She does not want to kill them!

Pick off all the fruit while it's immature, well before it becomes edible.
Or chop the trees out and replace them with non-fruiting type that also
produce no nectar that the bats find attractive.
Or erect nets clear of the tree and which go down to almost ground level;
these will keep away destructive birds, too.
Or fire a gun into the air near the bats to scare them every 8-10 minutes
all through the night.
Or sell up and let the new owner worry about the problem.

If it is only one or two trees, you could try buying a boxful of rubber
snakes and threading these up among the foliage. I suggest that you move
them around every few days so that cluey birds and bats don't come to
realise that the snakes are immobile and dead. A dab of fluorescent paint
in the eyes of the snakes might make them glow more fiercely in the
moonlight.

HTH
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John Savage (news reply email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)