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Why I Built A Bat House
love bats because mosquitoes LOVE to bite me. Pesticides mostly kill
the
mosquito's predators rather than mosquitoes. According to Bat
Conservation
International, a single bat can capture 500 to 1,000 mosquitoes in a
single
hour! Bats are also interesting because:
In many ecosystems, they play a key role in pollinating plants.
There are more than 1,000 species of bats in the world!
Some bats use echolocation, or high pitched chirps which bounce
off objects
in front of them, to find their way in the dark.
Why Build a Bat House?
You might be surprised: bats don't always live in caves. Some bats
spend
winter months in caves, but most bats spend summers in trees, under
bridges or
in old buildings, where they give birth and rear young. Your goal is to
make a
bat house that mimics the space between bark and a tree trunk. That
would be the
bats' ideal nursery. That's why the space inside a bat house is very
narrow,
unlike a bird house which would house a nest. Bats like tight spaces.
They also
need it nice and warm for the babies. That's why we paint the box a dark
color
in most climates and why we caulk the sides to keep the heat in. Also,
you'll be
using a saw to rough up inside the box. That makes it more like tree
bark and
easier for the bats to climb up.
You might wonder why you need to build a bat house. Why can't the
bats just
find a nice tree? That is the challenge for many bat species as forests
are
cleared. Ideally they would live in a natural home but we build bat
houses to
help those who can't find space in a forest
;)
