Posted: 4/28/2004 5:38:31 PM EDT
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I was outside a little while ago, just enjoying the evening and I look around and see BATS flying around, HOW COOL IS THAT... I need to look inot a BAT HOUSE NOW, and see if I can get some to move in closer... |
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I love bats! They are the great! The bat house is a wonderful idea. I wish I could put one up, but I live in a townhouse without much of a backyard. There used to be a lot of bats in my neighborhood, but they ripped up all of the wooded area nearby, and I only see them occasionally now. Many species of bats are endangered, so it would be great for you to give them somewhere to hang. |
Pun intended, I presume. 
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We had a bat in our garage once, and we caught it. For a while all it did was fly in circles, looking for an escape. Of course after we looked at it for a while (with leather gloves on), we let it go. We also had a brown bat hibernating in our attic. I wasn't there when this happened, but we have a nursery of bats in our outside wall. Apparently a mother bat with a few babies attached flew out, and was thrown off balance by the babies, and crashed into a tree and broke its neck! |
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Bats are one of the good animals, they eat 3 times their body wieght in insects. And the phrase "blind as a bat," does not really apply, they can't see very well but there sonar is superior to anything we know, and they won't get tangled in your hair, total wive's tale. |
| They are among the best creatures. This is despite the fact that many find them to be "creepy" or whatever. They are mammals like us. The mommies nurse and care for their young. They eat HUGE numbers of mosquitoes and similar pesky insects. We should help them whenever we can. I am hoping people will build little nest boxes for them the way we have been building wood duck boxes for decades. |
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We have a serious shitload of `em in the attic of our farmhouse up in PA. I sat out in the yard one evening, and was counting them as they popped out of the eves of the house. They'd drop straight down and level out, skimming across the lawn, catching a snack even before they'd gone 50 ft. I quit counting at around 150, and I know that there was at least several times over what I'd counted. They don't have anything to worry about from me. |
They're cool unless they get into your house. My buddy had them get into his attic, and being an older house, that meant they could go anywhere in the house. Nothing like having a bat dive bomb you on the couch. I'll leave it to your imagination the best way to deal with them in the house...I'll spare the bloody details... Kevin |
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You lucky lucky son of a bitch. I don't know where to get them. I am going to buy a bat house but I don't know how to attract them to the area. I hear if you can get bats to live in yoru bathouse then your mosquito problems are over (mosquitos are REALLY bad where i'm living now near the Arkansas river, in Little Rock, and also where I grew up in Jonesboro in the rice fields...) Let us know how it goes |
I have been planning on building a bat house for the last year...lol... ya I know, I'm a lazy bastard... The mosquitos are crazy around my house 
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One of the largest, if not the largest, bat colonies in IN used to be in the old Nickle Plate RR depot in Cicero which is about 12 mi. south of where I live.
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| Can someone send me the plans to a bat house? I am looking for the ones that you make out of a square post and mount on the ground. I have a bat house that looks like a bird house up for several years with no luck even with them flying around it at night. Someone told me I need a house that is made from a post because they live under the bark of trees. |
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Just don't mess with any that you see moving slowly, or staying in the same spot for long periods of time. Rabies in bats doesn't make them go like "Cujo", it paralyzes them. I've seen a couple at work the last couple of weeks. Anyway, I love bats, since they eat half their weight in skeeters, and I HATE SKEETERS! Here's a place with inexpensive Bat Houses. Heres a link to the search page I used: Even MORE Bat Houses Good luck. I wish I could get some around the house here. The skeeters get really bad around here. |
We used to have a bunch of them back home. One year my Mother got dive-bombed twice walking to the garage and back, and we decided to cut back on the bat population a little. My Dad and I sat outside with 12 gauges full of #9 at twilight for the next couple of days. I know, I know, bats are good creatures, but they make for great hillbilly skeet.  I've also seen a bat caught with a fly rod. That was pretty crazy. One second the guy was casting and the next he had a very active kite. |