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Bats around the home can make evenings enjoyable.



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alleyyooper

Michigan
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:22 pm   Post subject: Bats around the home can make evenings enjoyable.


Smile Bats eat many of those pesty evening and night time bugs that run us indoors. To have bats move in to your yard area and clean those pest up during the night give them a day time home.

According to Bat Conservation International, a single bat can capture 500 to 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour!

Find all you need to know to build a bat house here.

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/bats.shtml

http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bats/bat_house.asp

Very Happy Al




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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:29 am   Post subject:


Thanks much for the links for the bat house plans. Hubby said he would make me one when I found the plans.

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Heather


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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:14 pm   Post subject:


Surprised I am deathly afraid of bats. My hubby thinks its great to point them out to me when they are flying around on a warm summer night. I guess I won't be making any bat houses but it would be nice to have the bugs taken care of.....

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eileen


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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:36 pm   Post subject:


I'm exactly the opposite to you Heather as I love bats and keep hoping that they'll set up a roost in my loft!! After almost 21 years in our cottage though, without a bat to be seen, I doubt that it will happen now. Sad A neighbour has a roost in his attic and has counted about 300 bats leaving during the summer evenings. How I envy him!!


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dooley

Texas
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:27 am   Post subject:


I'm not fond of bats either. When I was younger, one dive bombed me when we were in the car. I screeched until Brian could get the car stopped. I think I bailed out before the car stopped rolling. I think I frightened the poor bat. I pushed him out, shut the car door and rolled up the window. Lots of wild bats here are rabid so we have to be careful. Dooley

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tweetykiss

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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:30 am   Post subject:


I will have to check out that link...I love bats....Thanks for the link....

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Primsong

Oregon
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:00 am   Post subject:


I like them, we have a small number that flit over our house in the twilight, slurping up mosquitoes. They're cute. Very Happy

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