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[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 267 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bats eat their weight in mosquitoes every night, unlike your typical hoa board member

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 10 months ago

This isn't funny, think of all the poor HOA board members that get eaten by bats every night

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

Stop, stop. I can only get so erect.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 15 points 10 months ago

What if the bats bite humans, create vampires and you have hot single vampire mommies in your area?

[-] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago

sadly they only get you rabies, instead of giving you Lady Domitrescu

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 57 points 10 months ago
[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Yes, but enough about the HOA!

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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 94 points 10 months ago
[-] xkbx@startrek.website 61 points 10 months ago

I thought bats were nocturnal

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 109 points 10 months ago
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

And so, Lunar Punk was born.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So, after you build this Bat Roost, how do you tell the local bat population that you're open for business .. asking for .. a friend, purely for .. educational purposes.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

Bats are incredibly picky about their roosts. People have done this and attracted 0 bats lol.

[-] Pirasp@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

And other people just have a million bats living in their attic

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago

It helps if you actually live near bats.

I came home to a small ball of fluff and wings wrapped up in the corner of my porch one day, so for gits and shiggles I put up a small bat box on a post against the trees nearby.

It took a week or two but I noticed it was in use when I went outside one night and saw one pop out of it.

Protip: be very careful about what you use to stain/paint it. Apparently they don't like the smell of those things. I didn't paint mine.

Bats need a real estate agent...

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

It helps if you actually live near bats

So you SHOULDN'T expect thousands of bats to travel thousands of miles for your roost? Good to know!

crosses "build bat roost by Greenland vacation house" from to-do list

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

A friend of mine loves being in his backyard but hates the mosquitoes. He heard about this bat roost thing and installed one about 5 years ago. It has not attracted a single bat.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

It's important to build the right kind of roost.

Check https://www.batcon.org/ for guidance and inspiration

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I guess like any other animals, bats will seek places with other bats, or where bats lived before. The best option would be to procure a pair of domesticated bats and put them into the roost, I'm not sure if it's even legal. The next best choice is to acquire a few kilograms of bat shit, and spray it all over and inside your roost, so it smells like bat.

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

If you build it, they will come.

We've built a little urban utopia for our pollinator friends. The little guys just started popping up when the flowers started blooming.

[-] tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

I would consider this a service to the neighborhood. More bats, fewer mosquitoes.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 85 points 10 months ago

But they're black so HOAs hate them.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 43 points 10 months ago

In my village in the Netherlands bat roosts are installed in a bunch of places, they also mandate that houses have little box things on their side for them. Never seen a single bat lmao, but in the old family house in France there's a bunch in the attic.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

It's important to build the right kind of roost for the bats in your area

Check https://www.batcon.org/ for guidance and inspiration

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago

This is very true. Artificial refugia can act as animal traps by encouraging predators to exploit them, or by promoting desired animal use, but exposing them to thermal extremes.

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/csp2.204

[-] currycourier@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Poked through the site a bit and found the direct link to the Bat House Builder's Handbook for anyone else interested!

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

I love my local bats! It's fun watching them under the street lights at night.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 10 months ago

Nobody complains about bats, bats are awesome and hard to notice anyway

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago

that last bit tells me you're either old or have hearing damage: we have some bats around me and despite never once seeing them it's plainly obvious to me that they exist thanks to their shrill squeaky calls in the twilight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eqkaHkTAI

[-] norbert@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Linking to a guy using an expensive ultrasonic mic to hear bats doesn't really support youe statement that you're hearing bats around you despite never seeing them. Maybe you have hearing damage?

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[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I live in an HOA (obligatory Fuck them)

They put up numerous bat boxes on poles around the common wooded area and a large retention pond right about the time Covid started.

Main reason is it’s free insect killers. We have tons of pests anyway being so close to a wooded area and a lake + the retention pond we have and the added bats help to clear some of them out.

As for the noise, no you really don’t hear them here. All the frogs are the loudest things heard of a night.

[-] Dashi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Sitting out on my deck listening to the frogs/nature at night. I still hear the bats when they are within 20ft. It isn't loud but you hear them. They are a pleasant addition to the symphony that goes on at night.

Now... fuck pheasants at night they are loud and when you don't know what the sound is its creepy

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Some species of bats spend more time in the upper ranges that no human can hear than others.

The spotted bat for instance, is found on west coast if North America and mostly calls at 11khz well within even older human hearing while other bats operate entirely outside human hearing.

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

That thing's bigger than my house!

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

You have a house?!?! Must be nice.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Tfw the bats can afford higher rent than you can

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