Bonide Bat Magic Bat Repellent, Pack of 4 Ready-to-Use Peppermint Oil Scent Packs for Long Lasting Indoor Bat Control

I live in Northern California in a heavily wooded area with a lot of beautiful homes. It's beautiful up here lots of Wildlife, and small Mouse eared bats, great for the environment they eat a lot of bugs and mosquitoes and are protected. If you have a bat problem, do yourself a big favor before you spend tons of money on bat tubes, electronic devices, deterrent sprays, bat boxes, and try bat Magic first. I was amazed. And I am a skeptical person when it comes to throwing money away. My bat family moved into my three canned porch lights on my front porch. Everyday I was walking through bat poop, and was afraid they would get into my attic like they have with a lot of my neighbors who bought all the expensive tubes and stuff and it never helped. And oh yes don't fall for putting a bat box on your pine tree to relocate them from your porch, the idea is to make them leave your property. Well that's another story. So I called the company talked to a nice guy and for $22 I got two boxes with four pouches, again still skeptical. I put a pouch in each canned light on my porch, swept the bat poop off like I do everyday and waited. This is day four, no bat poop, no bats. One bat tube from Amazon was $49 and I needed three, very humane, the peppermint and spearmint oils in the pouches is like a bat putting their head into a jar of Vicks Vapor Rub and off the Little Devils go. Again just amazing. Be aware of installing a bat box near your house, the expert said. Because you're just encouraging them to stay on your premises.

Our house was once a barn so the cellar is pretty primitive (a near dirt cellar) but our cat loves it. But when he started to bring bats upstairs (either dead or pretending to be) I was a bit freaked out. After asking several people (contractors, exterminators, etc) who are familiar with bats in old (200+year) New England homes, the general consensus was that the only solution would be to not let the cat in the basement which, I guess, would have been doable if we had NOT just cut a hole to create a cat door and moved his litter box down there. Our vet said that any "machine" that sends out a high pitched sound which the companies claim doesn't harm a cat was false-he would hear it and be bothered by it. (And then she put him on a yearly rabies shot routine rather than once every 3 years). So these bags were my only option and I didn't have any high hopes that they would actually work since the exterminator said he had never even heard of them. But they were cheap enough so I bought a 4 pack and literally just tossed them in the one small room that I suspected was the only room the bats could be in and voila. No more bats. I bought a second pack a few months later because it says that the smell fades after a few but that was a year ago. I think the bats have left for good! After reading some of the reviews, I think that the scent bags are really made for somewhat hidden areas where bats have lived for awhile and which are kind of inaccessible for humans. I'm not sure the product would do much for the occasional stray bat that may be flying around one's home. Get a tennis racket and open a window for that scenario.

Sadly, these just don't work. The box claims the product "interfere(s) with chemoreception and the functions of a bats stensons canal". Either our bats have evolved some adaptation to their chemoreceptors or perhaps they have plugged up their stensons canals. The picture is a vent in our attic. (Don't worry, their is window screening securely attached to the inside of the vent. The bats are not loose in our attic). The white packets are Bat Magic and are inside the screen. The dark patches next to the packets are six bats on the outside of the screen. They leave at dark, eat bugs all night and come back before dawn to contribute to the guano pile at the bottom of the picture. I guess the bats like the smell of the peppermint and spearmint because they are snuggled up next to the packets. I wish these would work, the better rated bat repellants are quite a bit more expensive.

did not smell as strong as i thought it would

After having spent years setting up traps all over the place for what I thought was mice crawling all over our cabin, turns out that it was really bats that were leaving tiny droppings that looks just like mouse ones. The problem is that it is difficult to keep bats out of spaces such as old drafty cabins as they can get through extremely tight spaces. Per the scientific literature out there, the best bets to keep bats out are sealing the space and lighting the space at night. Some recommend napthalene/benzene, but no thanks on putting carcinogens in a fishing cabin. Left with little choice, I tried this product. Each box comes with four packs which smell like peppermint, and placed them near the rafters of the ceiling. The amount of bat poop dropped dramatically, but is not entirely gone. I will keep using them as they are not too expensive and seem to be having an effect.

I was skeptical about this product helping me get rid of the bats that suddenly appeared on my back patio every night. I’ve never had bats before, so I had no idea on how to get rid of them. I figured out they were nesting in one of the columns on my patio. I found this product on Amazon and was impressed by all the good reviews, so I decided to try it. I asked my son-in-law to place a couple of the pads in the spaces where we thought the bats were entering and exiting. The next couple of days I sat out on the patio (while my dog was going potty in the yard), and the bats were gone! There used to be a half dozen or so that would fly through my patio even when I was sitting there. But no more! I hope they found a better home than mine!

These were great.I used 1 and I haven't any bat problems since then... And it's safe to use and has a very nice strong peppermint smell which I love. And i'm so glad the bats hate lol

I bought three of these and they definitely don't work for me other than the shop smells better. Good luck to anyone that has a bat problem. Gonna try a bat box next but kind of relunctant as nothing I've tried works ...and why would they want to move from the shop into an outdoors bat box? I gave this product a 2 star since it smells so nice.