Posted on 09/09/2024 4:17:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
International Bat Night is global celebration of bats, organised by Eurobats. Normally it would take place at the end of August, but with the holiday season in full swing and noisy nights in Casares, they decided to shift it to mid-September this year.
Casares will experience the ‘Night of the Bats’ on Friday, September 13. The batty organisation ‘Euro Bats’, as every year at this time, is hosting talks, exhibitions and an evening workshop on bat locations using radio frequency-location devices. Beginning at dusk, they give talks about the important role these mammals play in nature, their benefits and problems. They then continue with a nighttime workshop to locate and identify the bats in the area, for which participants will be able to use ultrasound detectors along the area of el Secadero.
Important role for bats – they eat mosquitos! The attendees, children and adults, always enjoy themselves and learn about the wide variety of species that exist, the role they play in the ecosystem and the risks that are threatening their conservation and survival. The Cave Bat tends to be the most prevalent in this part of the World due to the landscape of mountains, canyons and, of course, caves. Naturally nocturnal animals, they feeds on moths, flies, and more importantly, mosquitoes. Everyone meets at 7.30pm at the Plaza de Andalucía, El Secadero, on Friday, September 13.
Any enemy of mosquitoes is my friend.
Hillerich and Bradsby should be advertising....
Wait. The bats are organizing a bat celebration?
Did they hire a PR firm?
Does Ozzy know about this?
Served almost two years in Panama while in the Army. Our three story barracks had tile roofs and every night at dusk, the bats living up in the tiles would come flying out by the hundreds of thousands.
“ Any enemy of mosquitoes is my friend.”
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Mine also. Bat are, unfortunately, fighting off some kind of new fungus (“white nose”?) that’s keeping their numbers way down.
Bats are much maligned, of infinitely more benefit to mankind than they are threat. Without bats, you wouldn’t have bananas, or agave (for tequila) because bats are their chief pollinator.
The largest (known) bat colony in the world is Bracken cave, near San Antonio. Ecologists have found the 15 million Mexican free-tail bats that live there feed on 44 different insect species, 20 of which are migratory, but their favorite foods are the moth form of the corn worm and the boll weevil. Which means they’re flying pest control for corn and cotton fields.
The 2006 study said they provided abut $750,000-worth of crop protection. A 2011 study of the country on the whole put the value of bat pest-removal services in the billions (with a “B”).
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