{"id":222130,"date":"2026-04-07T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:06:08","slug":"fwc-advisory-bat-maternity-season-starts-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222130\/","title":{"rendered":"FWC Advisory: Bat Maternity Season Starts in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 With bat maternity season starting soon, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) reminds the public that April 15 is the last day to legally remove bats from buildings without a permit, until Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The only legal and effective method to remove bats from buildings is by using exclusion devices that let bats exit safely but prevent reentry, which can only be used from August 15 to April 15, outside the bat maternity season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Permits are needed to use exclusion devices during Florida\u2019s bat maternity season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Our state\u2019s 13 native bat species include endangered species such as the Florida bonneted bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775577968_403_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 With bat maternity season starting soon, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) reminds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100626,100625,147,145,100627,28,15748,139,141,140,5202,144,146],"class_list":{"0":"post-222130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-bat-exclusion","9":"tag-bat-maternity-season","10":"tag-central-florida","11":"tag-channel-9","12":"tag-exclusion-devices","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-orlando-headlines","17":"tag-orlando-news","18":"tag-permits","19":"tag-wftv","20":"tag-wftv-channel-9"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}