Pro tip, do not assume that the sensation of water droplets you feel when the bats emerge from the houses is water.
its not, its them peeing on you.
nmacaroni
what does those hold, like 10,000,000 bats and a lb of rabies?
Xorndowndeep
I want that
Eliot_Lochness
Love watching them come out at night, spectacular sight.
imgary
Will you collect the droppings for fertilizer?
markonopolo
I was a student at UF when they built the first of these in an effort to get the bats out of the football stadium. One night, they fenced off the part of the stadium where the bats slept, and hoped they’d move to the new bat house. IIRC (this was 35 years ago), this was the first time this strategy for bat moving had been tried.
And no bats came to the bat-house for quite some time – months, at least. Then, the colony decided to move in and created one of my favorite evening “performances” in Gainesville. The first few months, it was a great party atmosphere as hundreds of people came to watch the bats.
And after the bats have left for the night, you can turn around and see gator eyes in the dark of Lake Alice.
iprayforwaves
These are beautiful!
We have bats living in our old oaks. I’d love to be able to build a smaller version of this for them. We love watching them fly around at dusk.
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Pro tip, do not assume that the sensation of water droplets you feel when the bats emerge from the houses is water.
its not, its them peeing on you.
what does those hold, like 10,000,000 bats and a lb of rabies?
I want that
Love watching them come out at night, spectacular sight.
Will you collect the droppings for fertilizer?
I was a student at UF when they built the first of these in an effort to get the bats out of the football stadium. One night, they fenced off the part of the stadium where the bats slept, and hoped they’d move to the new bat house. IIRC (this was 35 years ago), this was the first time this strategy for bat moving had been tried.
And no bats came to the bat-house for quite some time – months, at least. Then, the colony decided to move in and created one of my favorite evening “performances” in Gainesville. The first few months, it was a great party atmosphere as hundreds of people came to watch the bats.
And after the bats have left for the night, you can turn around and see gator eyes in the dark of Lake Alice.
These are beautiful!
We have bats living in our old oaks. I’d love to be able to build a smaller version of this for them. We love watching them fly around at dusk.
Go gators