Bats eat their weight in mosquitoes every night, unlike your typical hoa board member
This isn't funny, think of all the poor HOA board members that get eaten by bats every night
Stop, stop. I can only get so erect.
What if the bats bite humans, create vampires and you have hot single vampire mommies in your area?
sadly they only get you rabies, instead of giving you Lady Domitrescu
but they do suck blood
And can carry rabies
Yes, but enough about the HOA!
This is solar punk
I thought bats were nocturnal
And so, Lunar Punk was born.
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.
Bats are incredibly picky about their roosts. People have done this and attracted 0 bats lol.
And other people just have a million bats living in their attic
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...
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
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.
It's important to build the right kind of roost.
Check https://www.batcon.org/ for guidance and inspiration
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.
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.
I would consider this a service to the neighborhood. More bats, fewer mosquitoes.
But they're black so HOAs hate them.
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.
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
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
Poked through the site a bit and found the direct link to the Bat House Builder's Handbook for anyone else interested!
I love my local bats! It's fun watching them under the street lights at night.
Nobody complains about bats, bats are awesome and hard to notice anyway
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
That thing's bigger than my house!
You have a house?!?! Must be nice.
Tfw the bats can afford higher rent than you can
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