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To: Dysart
Has anyone found that a successful breeding colony on property significantly reduces the population of pesky mosquitos?

Purple martins are good, but bats are better, since they hunt and feed at dusk when martins are roosting. I have had no sucess with luring bats to my houses, though.

147 posted on 02/12/2005 8:30:59 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: Conservababe

Golly.... we have a TON of bats. I never knew it till we went out in the pasture at night... They were everywhere.

We don't have any mosquitos really.


149 posted on 02/12/2005 8:34:16 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: Conservababe

We have a light like a street light in our front yard, we live in the country, it attracts moths that attract bats. You can see them darting in to catch the moths.

Becky


159 posted on 02/13/2005 5:02:05 AM PST by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (aka: Horselifter, Mackdaddy:)
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