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.
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”).
