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Bats.....

are our friends of the night. Seventy percent (70%) of the bat species are insect eating bats or insectivores. Many of these bats can eat one bug every 6 seconds. This is up to 600 bugs an hour. Besides mosquitoes, bats also eat crop destroying pests like moths, locusts, grasshoppers, etc. Bats living near your home could keep you free of insect bites and other troubles caused by flying insects. This is why bat houses are becoming popular.

The Brown Bat can eat up to 1,200 night flying insects in just one hour. Though a bat's eye sight is pretty good, many have the added skill of echolocation. Like a dolphin's sonar, a bat will let out high-pitched pulsing sounds from its mouth or nose. The sound bounces off of obstacles and food and echoes back to the bat giving them information about the size, shape, identity and direction of flight of the object. As a bat zeros in on the pray, the echo pulses increase and the hunt is refined. Using echolocation, a bat can locate food as thin as a human hair.

America’s bats are an invaluable natural resource, yet due to decades of unwarranted human fear and persecution, bats are in alarming decline. If you are not sure how to get started attracting these friends of the night, we offer a great book to help get you started. We have several different styles and colors of bat houses to accomodate the many styles of gardens.