Birdfeeders

Mexican free-tailed bats will be the most common resident of your bat house if you live in the southern and southwestern United States. They are found as far north as Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Oregon in the summer and then migrate to Mexico and Central America in the winter. They have large ears, sharp teeth, a wingspan of as much as 12 inches and tails that extend beyond the membrane that connects legs and tail. They only seem to use a bat house that is mounted on a building or high pole and ignore a bat house mounted on a tree. Females bear one young per season, most commonly in late May or early June. As with other bats, Mexican free-tails eat enormous quantities of insects, but they eat mostly moths.