Bat Removal in Morrisville, NC

A railroad stop that became a tech town

Morrisville was founded in 1852 and named for Jeremiah Morris, who gave land to the North Carolina Railroad. It was incorporated in 1875, lost its charter in 1933, and got it back in 1947. A Civil War skirmish was fought at Morrisville Station in April 1865, and the Morrisville Christian Church is on the National Register.

Today Morrisville sits between Research Triangle Park and Raleigh-Durham International Airport, home to Lenovo’s operational headquarters and a long list of tech and life-science employers. By 2020, 29,630 people lived here, and a big share of them live in townhomes, condos, and apartments.

Why Morrisville bat calls are different

Most bat calls in other towns come from single-family homeowners. In Morrisville, a lot of them come from property managers, HOA boards, apartment staff, and facilities teams. That changes the job in a few ways:

• Shared attics and rooflines. A colony in one townhome can reach the attic space of the next unit.
• Repeated construction details. Buildings from the same builder share the same soffit returns, dormer corners, and vents. A gap on one building is often on its neighbors.
• More people to keep informed. Tenants, owners, boards, and managers all want to know what’s happening.
• Commercial roofs. Office buildings and flex spaces near RTP have long fascia lines, parapets, and large vents.

Our pages on bat removal for property managers, condos, and HOAs and bat removal for offices and commercial buildings cover those jobs in depth.

Where bats get into Morrisville buildings

Most of the housing here is recent, so the openings are construction details rather than rot. On townhomes and condo buildings, we look closely at soffit returns at gable ends, dormer and bump-out corners, gable and ridge vents, roof-to-wall seams over garages and balconies, and siding transitions on tall front gables. On commercial buildings, add fascia bands, parapet caps, expansion joints, and ventilation louvers.

Lake Crabtree and the creek

Lake Crabtree County Park covers about 250 acres on the town’s northeast side, and Crabtree Creek Nature Park adds 37 more. Between the lake, the creek, and the wooded buffers between neighborhoods, there’s a lot of bat activity at dusk. That’s normal. A roost shows up as bats leaving a building from the same gap every night, droppings on a balcony or sidewalk, or a smell in a top-floor unit.

How we handle it

We inspect the whole building or row of buildings, seal the openings the bats aren’t using, put one-way exits on the ones they are, and close everything once the colony is out. Owners and managers get photos and a scope they can share. North Carolina doesn’t allow evictions from May 1 through July 31, and paid bat evictions have to be performed by a licensed Wildlife Control Agent. Exclusion work comes with a warranty.

For the details, see how bat exclusion works and attic and guano cleanup. For a bat in a unit right now, see emergency bat removal. Older congregations nearby can read about churches and historic buildings.

Morrisville is one of the Triangle towns we serve from Raleigh. See the rest on our page for bat removal in the Triangle.