Bats

[Bill Barrett]

Good info, I like bats around the place.
bat, bat houses, bat information

 

[3RRL]

Is that poaching? I had a flashlight and a vacuum.
lol...Was the vacuum loaded?
I looked up "Bat Season" but could not find one so I think you are OK.

You guys know I have an outdoor bathroom at camp. One day while sweeping it out, I broomed this little guy. He did not fly away and seemed stunned.



I picked him up and he stopped acting all tough like that. I put him outside the bathroom and he flew away after a few minutes.

 

[Soundguy]

Is that poaching? I had a flashlight and a vacuum.

Probably only if you were on your own private property.. and the LEO's/public officials in your county have a head 'wedgie'... (wink)

Soundguy

 

[TedLaRue]

I had a problem with bats roosting in the cavities of the trusses of my house before it was closed in. I stapled cardboard (from cereal boxes) over the cavities and that helped a lot.

I caught several of them. I took one of them in to my daughter's 2nd grade class. Cloth gloves (like the kind that have the rubber dots on them) are sufficient to keep them from biting you. Their teeth are very small and they don't have a powerful bite (after all, they're only after insects!). I released them far from my house.

On a positive note, their droppings are quite dry, so you can usually sweep them away without a major mess where they were.

 

[dieselalles]

We had a number of bats flying around our farm when I was a kid. They nested in the deep woods in the river bottom, under bridges and in buildings in the area.

And on Summer nights under our mercury vapor light there was always tons of bugs flying around. And there was a ton of toad frogs sitting around waiting for an encounter with a juicy bug. As well, the air was filled with about a half dozen bats flying around going after the bugs as well.

It was a hoot watching the frogs catch the bugs with their long sticky tongues, and equally fun was to throw pebbles or acorns in the air and watch the bats chase them almost to the ground.

 

[curly]

Soon after we built our log cabin we started noticing the bats had found a roost up in a little cavity under the eaves. I had built 2 or 3 bat houses and never put them up so I quickly put one up right in the area they were roosting. They completely left!

They have since returned, but never seem to move into the bat box?