End of the Season II

Well, the busy season is about over. The annual mouse jobs are pretty much finished. We have a few more, but not many. The ants, bees, wasps, and hornets have pretty much all gone to Florida for the winter. I never did find out where they go down there. Disney World? Just kidding, they really just go dormant for the winter. We've been doing the last of the bat exclusions now, because they are gone for the winter. They really are. Off to old mine shafts and caves that are known as bat hibernaculas. One of the best known around here is the old iron mine in Roxbury, CT. I hope that "white nose syndrome" is a thing of the past, both for our sake (more bat work next summer) and the bats. That fungus has killed tens of thousands of bats in the Northeast in the past two winters and it is rapidly spreading south and west. Bats don't reproduce that fast, so it will be a long time before their population recovers, if it ever does. As we go into winter, we'll be getting some new mouse business as they move inside for warmth, and the occasional squirrel in the attic.More about squirrels in the future, including the squirrel from Hell.