Forum: Freestuff


Subject: A Bat Box

McGyver13 opened this issue on Aug 15, 2012 · 10 posts


Radar_Foxbat posted Thu, 16 August 2012 at 12:07 AM

The 2 biggest news items here right now is "Worst year for West Nile Virus" & Brown Recluse and other spiders enfestations. both very good for bats. I'm building bat house that hold around 1000 bats I'm trying to get the city build neighborhood bat houses of 10,000 bats or even a community bat house of 100 - 200,000 bats like Texas has done. I'm working on an animation I'm going to send to the TV news shows here with a bat talking about the problems in Oklahoma and how petty it seams for a bat when it's just every day food for them. Big browns also eat wasps and we have a lot of those this year. The NABHRP North American Bat House Research Project a 20 year study from Bat Conservation International with 1200 bat houses proved the bigger the house the better so all of mine are atleast 9 chamber  some 5 chamber for the broke customer it will jst take longer to get them to move in. I'm also using recycle privacy fence so all my houses are recycled wood. keeps the cost down too. stilll working out deals witht he fence companies..

If you talk to the Animals, they will talk with you. And you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them. And what you do not know you will fear, What one fears One destroys." Chief Dan George-Tsleil-Waututh Nation Next time your scared by a bat remember 8 million have died from White Nose Syndrome 1 bat=5 lbs bugs/year=1-2 million mosquitoes/year 1 small bat house = 250-700 bats you do the math. West Nile Virus infected 5287 people killed 243 last year is your home protected? http://fewerr.org/Pictures/WNV_Bat_Mosquito_yellow%202.pdf

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