OT: Bat houses?
 

I bought a bat house today. Yes a House for bats sorta like a bird house, except for bats. Anyone seen these before?

Just have to ask, why would you buy a bat house??

It helps with insect control. Somebody gave me one a couple of years back, I put it up but the bats never found it :confused:

You know to be honest I didn't leave the house today to go buy one. I was walking down the aisle to buy bird food for all the pretty birds in my yard. I was looking at getting them a new house, WHEN I see this Bat house and I start to think to myself. I have wasted tons of money on boats in my life and these poor bats get no respect nor do they have a place to live so I'll buy em a house. Actually I have no Friggin Idea I just bought the darn thing.

My buddy said it's like section 8 housing for birds I'll be ruining their neighborhood

i keep mine in my belfry :D :p :p :rolleyes:

I'm reading the package now it says it may take a full year for my local bats to be comfortable and move in to this house.

Now are you goin to be like all the other deadbeat section 8 landlords and live in another state from where the housing is? You know you cant have the disgruntled bats coming and lookin for you.

Once you get them, you can never take it down. Seems some of them are on the endangered speceis list. So to get rid of nest , they all have to be cought and relocated.
One farm we rent has them in a barn. The landowner would love get rid of them. They leave a very sticky smelly mess. He asked someon at the local DNR office how to get rid of them and was told, "You can't"

Have fun

:D :D :D

Doing a search for them I have found some good plans for building bat houses. I'm on a pond with 200' of frontage and the skeeters can get pretty bad. I've seen bats around. I think it might bring some more if they had a place to "hang out".

I've got 2 of em.

One has bats. The other doesn't. They are both nailed to similar trees facing the same direction. They just dont like one of em.

I've also have one. It also took a year before they found it. If you want to try to find out if you have any bats around here is what I do. On a day you think there will be a good moon out, cut your grass just before dark to get the bugs strirred up. Go out just when it gets dark and watch for about a half an hour and they are usaully flying around if they are in the neighborhood.

I have a couple of them I put them in proximity to the barn witch there is a few living in to see if they would move outside some did but there are still some living in the barn
they make a mess have to keep the boats and things covered. They say to use moth balls and a small can of open gasoline around (I know it's dangerous) and it never worked maybe because It's a very high barn 40'. Sometimes when I am working in the barn at night they will fly into you they don't bother me but the rest of my family are scared of them but they are Great for insect control, Jo

Have you've ever thought about maybe turning your interests towards women and taking them out for something too eat??? :eureka:

My cats kill em if they fly too low.
I believe it is legal for you to use cats as an exterminating device.

I've got this vision of Too Old running around the house with his eyes bugging out, in his boxers and socks, robe flyin' behind him, chasing some bat with a tennis racket...

i made three of them at one time for a horse ranch that i worked on.. they work weel but you have to put them up about 20-25 feet of the ground and they must face east.. the afternoon sun will bake them and they will leave.. but they do consume somewhere between 600 and 800 smaller bugs nightly per animal.. and unless you go out to look at the box at night you'll never see they.. on last thing put the box a good distances away from humans.. they'll like it beter..

I've actually had to evict bats on occasion at work. I found that i nice wide broom works really well as a bat-bat. If you get the grip right, you can send them out and open window. :D