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CHARLOTTE -- People who find bats in their home may have to wait another month before it's safe to remove them. While bats are a health hazard, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission reports it's more dangerous to move a colony that includes young bats.

Bats breed between May and July, so many bats are unable to fly on their own until about August. Wildlife Damage Control agents don't touch the bats when they remove them, so it's important the bats are able to fly out on their own.

"As the ones that leave can't get back in, they'll move onto another spot," said Anthony Hardison, an animal agent. "And then the other ones when they go out to feed, they'll do the same thing and then just eventually they're all out of the house.

Once all the bats can fly, experts will put up nets to slowly push them out the way they came in, then follow up with screens to keep them out for good.

"They're good for the environment, but not your environment," said Hardison.

Officials suggest letting experts handle bat exclusion because bats harbor disease and clean up can be dangerous.