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What Do You Think About Having a Bat House?

Could Your Environment Benefit?

From the lens Bat House - Go Green All Year By Hosting Bats.

  • TheDogShop May 26, 2012 @ 1:23 pm | delete
    Great topic altho bats creep me out so think I'll stick with the bugs
  • nancycarol Feb 23, 2012 @ 10:23 pm | delete
    An excellent idea to help combat bugs and mosquitos. I'd much rather have the bats than the bugs. Thanks for sharing.
  • MaggiePowell Feb 23, 2012 @ 6:11 pm | delete
    I love Bats.. when I visit my parents we see them flying around the yard at dusk... I've never seen any near my house... maybe if we build them a house.
  • CruiseReady Feb 23, 2012 @ 10:54 am | delete
    Interesting, but I am not so sure i would like one in my little yard. Maybe on a big farm, away from the farmhouse...
  • AnthonyAltorenna Feb 13, 2012 @ 5:21 pm | delete
    Bats eat a tremendous amount of bugs (especially mosquitoes) and they are always welcome visitors to our yard. Two thumbs up for hanging a bat house!
  • Aug 11, 2011 @ 10:12 am | delete
    Hi Kimbesa,
    I enjoyed reading your lense. My friend has a 'batitat' as he calls it, and the bats inhabited it soon after he installed it. They are so benificial to our environment, he told me that 1 bat can consume 1,200 misquitos in a single evening. I'm for that! ^..^
    N T T
  • vallain Jul 7, 2011 @ 8:12 am | delete
    This is really nifty and just what I need for our summer place in the woods. One bat roosted in the ribs of our deck umbrella. Since we didn't realize he was there, the bat was injured when we closed the umbrella. We felt really bad about that.
  • Mujjen Jul 5, 2011 @ 4:49 am | delete
    We have a lot of bats in the garden behind our house, we watch them sometimes at night. Had never thought of building a bat house, until now that is!
  • alteredkat Jun 5, 2011 @ 8:32 am | delete
    eldest kid made one of these in cubs...we have it out back...there are bats in the bush but not sure if they are using the house yet...I'm all for feeding them our mosquitoes! :o)
  • Sylvestermouse Mar 19, 2011 @ 11:11 am | delete
    I love bats. Unfortunately because the bat houses have to be set up so high, we are not allowed to have them in our community. "They could be seen from the street." I think that is ridiculous! Makes me mad every time I think about it. We certainly had them at our last home.
  • Kimbesa Mar 19, 2011 @ 2:11 pm | delete
    That's disappointing to hear, they just don't want to allow habitat for bats. We have bat houses at the nearby nature center, to help with mosquito control for the entire area.
  • ChrisDay Feb 3, 2011 @ 3:00 pm | delete
    I'll go for it!
  • JaguarJulie Dec 30, 2010 @ 6:27 am | delete
    You know, where I used to live, we had bats ... there were bats that lived in the columns of the club house and when there would be a function, the bats would fly out like entertainment at dusk. I remember, before I left that house, that I would stand in the front yard at dusk and watch the bats fly around ... didn't contemplate having a bat house though.
  • Kimbesa Nov 21, 2010 @ 8:13 pm | delete
    Thanks everybody! Blessed and purple star...awesome!
  • CCGAL Oct 31, 2010 @ 4:39 pm | delete
    It would be awesome to have a bat house. It's so cool to see the bats come out from under the bridges around here - the ones down at the Congress Street Bridge are practically famous.

    ***Blessed*** on my last day as a squid angel.
  • BigGirlBlue Oct 25, 2010 @ 12:55 am | delete
    I would totally put a bat house up. I hear they eat lots of mosquitoes which we always have way too many of.
  • Fitzcharming Oct 14, 2010 @ 6:06 pm | delete
    I've always wanted a bat house. I even bought one once but it needs a 30 foot pole and that I don't have. Nice articles.

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