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To: fireman15
The most efficient mosquito predators by far are bats.

I've built two bat houses and placed them near my house. They both contain about 150 bats each. They've been there for years and I have minimal problems with mosquitos.
30 posted on 04/26/2023 10:18:30 PM PDT by jy8z (Everything you think, do and say is from the pill you took today.)
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To: jy8z

Purple martinbat’s. Cardinals take care of them at my place plus a couple bats.


31 posted on 04/26/2023 10:23:09 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: jy8z

No bats in the house?

Over the years I’ve had a few “visitors”....


33 posted on 04/26/2023 10:25:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: jy8z

We are fortunate to have a lot of bats in our area. There is a swamp below our house that goes for a couple of miles. I cannot imagine what the mosquito situation would be like here when it starts getting warm without the bats.

We had a bunch of tall firs die on our property a few years ago. Three of them were between our hangar and the neighbor’s house so I had to climb them and section them down. When I was at about the 75 foot level on one of them I felt something soft under my glove. When I lifted my hand a bat fell all the way to the ground. I climbed down and found it. Fortunately, the ground was soft. The bat was not moving, but I could not tell if it was alive or dead. I put it in a shoe box padded with some moss and placed it on our porch. Eventually it started moving and then it flew off.


37 posted on 04/26/2023 10:42:11 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: jy8z

When I was stationed in Panama while in the Army, the multi storied barracks on base had tiled roofs that the bats lived in. Every evening like clockwork, the bats would fly out by the tens of thousands then back in at dawn.


53 posted on 04/27/2023 3:45:58 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My guitar wants to kill your mama - Zappa)
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