Birdfeeders

There are great advantages to attracting bats to your area for they are natural insect zappers. Depending on the season and your location, they fill up nightly on mosquitoes, moths, cucumber beetles, June bugs, stink bugs, leafhoppers, etc. One brown bat can consume up to a thousand mosquitoes per hour! More and more people are discovering the advantages of providing housing for bats. With luck, a bat can live for 20 years, and mature females will have one baby a year for most of their adult life. Bats like to live in old hollow trees, caves or attics. However, there has been a serious reduction of available roosting sites which has led to a decline in bat populations. Therefore, bat houses are essential to help bats and stop this decline. To encourage bats to use bat houses, they should be placed high in trees or high on the side of a house in a sheltered place that gets sun for part of the day.