College students residing on the College of Georgia’s Oglethorpe Home have reported seeing bats inside their dormitory since returning to high school following the vacation break.
“It is very alarming,” scholar Ella Sather informed FOX 5. “There was one within the foyer, and it was like on the ground, after which hastily it simply received up and began flying at me, so I ran again to my room.”
“It has been an journey,” she added.
The college informed FOX 5 that pest management is on high of the infestation.
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Linda Casper, govt director of college housing, informed the station the bats had been coming into by means of the roof right into a mechanical house with boilers.
“We imagine they had been coming into by means of that house after which getting within the stairwells by means of that opening,” she mentioned.
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Casper mentioned pest management has been fastidiously eradicating the flying mammals and plugging holes the place they had been in a position to get in.
“We anticipated it could take about three days to take away all of the bats as a result of the bats are so small, and so they’re excellent at hiding,” she mentioned, including that round 30 extra had been discovered on Thursday and pest management is on name.
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“We proceed to inform college students, ‘Please, don’t contact the bats,’” she added. “‘In case you see one, please contact the desk or name the RAs.'”
Bats are a protected species in Georgia.