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BATS
Mar 6, 2013 10:01:57 GMT -5
Post by illeatyourdates02 on Mar 6, 2013 10:01:57 GMT -5
importance of Bats
The newsletter from,
"The Texas Gardener Seeds" said: Put up a bat house to encourage the presence of these shy animals.
Bats consume 3,000 or more mosquitoes and other insects nightly, and bats are Less likely to be rabid than dogs are.
Need another reason?
Bats are responsible for up to 95 percent of the seed dispersal essential to the regeneration of forests.
Our planet is populated with plenty of bizarre and astonishing creatures.
Three from the Bat Family
Sucker-footed Bat
-Red-Winged Fruit Bat
Then You Have nancy pelosi Left-Winged Ding Bat
So 2 out of 3 Bats have a useful purpose! If we could just train her to eat mosquitoes...or do anything useful!
;-)
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Mar 6, 2013 10:04:24 GMT -5
Post by debto1 on Mar 6, 2013 10:04:24 GMT -5
No thanks, I will stick to the Louisville species.
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Mar 6, 2013 10:05:59 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2013 10:05:59 GMT -5
I like Bats, I wanted a pet one until I was reading how big of cage they need to live healthy
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Mar 6, 2013 10:07:33 GMT -5
Post by cheknurpulse on Mar 6, 2013 10:07:33 GMT -5
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Mar 6, 2013 10:09:13 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 10:09:13 GMT -5
omg, so cute. I love bats.
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Mar 6, 2013 10:09:46 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 10:09:46 GMT -5
we have the little brown bats that i love hearing at night out in the forest. i few take up residense in my shuitters over the summer. they are fantastic for bug control. many have died because of a white fungus on their noses causing them to pre-maturely come outa hibernation when there's no food & they freeze to death. so sad- they are so neat.
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Mar 6, 2013 10:12:13 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2013 10:12:13 GMT -5
They are small I bet they shouldn't take up too much room, I wanted a Fruit or Vampire Bat
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Mar 6, 2013 10:14:25 GMT -5
Post by cheknurpulse on Mar 6, 2013 10:14:25 GMT -5
They are small I bet they shouldn't take up too much room, I wanted a Fruit or Vampire Bat Yeah they are kind of big. I think this year I am going to put out some bat boxes. They help control the misquitos.
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Mar 6, 2013 10:39:51 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 10:39:51 GMT -5
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Mar 6, 2013 13:55:00 GMT -5
Post by liberalsgonewild on Mar 6, 2013 13:55:00 GMT -5
I build bat boxes out of cedar. I have maybe 10 bats flying around on a warm night. I had more before the whitenose fungus killed them off. I thought you were talking about baseball bats which I have two. a 29" and a 33".
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Mar 6, 2013 16:56:44 GMT -5
Post by illeatyourdates02 on Mar 6, 2013 16:56:44 GMT -5
I had pet flying squirrels while growing up in Florida. My wife and I had a Sugar Glider from Australia, which is close to a Flying squirrel but smaller. She died at 10 years old. She was a sweet little thing. ;-)
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Mar 6, 2013 18:23:20 GMT -5
Post by xtal97 on Mar 6, 2013 18:23:20 GMT -5
FYI - for anybody on this board: in WW2, before we'd developed NAPALM we were actively working on a "Bat-Bomb." Literally! The idea was that we'd drop the bombs over Tokyo ~ noonish or so. The bomb would be activated by parachute, opening up a whole series of cages where a bunch of bats were kept in. The night before they were to be dropped they'd be fitted with a little self-detaching, self-igniting plug which would drop off the bat after a given time, when presumably the bat had found shelter - under somebody's eaves, under their porch, or wherever - and in a city made primarily of wood, a bunch of bats unknowingly starting fires as the bats are trying to find a place to sleep,well, that's going to incinerate the city just as effectively as the NAPALM that ultimately did.*
* Oh, to test this system, the military built a fake Japanese block in the middle of the desert outside of Muroc Army Base - where the 509th was testing a bunch of fake nukes and after the war the place ultimately became Edwards Airforce Base - and dropped a 1/3rd scale model of the bomb, not only did the entire block get incinerated within 1/2 hour, BUT buildings all over the nearby army base, including the armory where the bombs and bullets were all kept and the mess-hall where chow was served, were incinerated along with the fake Japanese block.
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Mar 6, 2013 18:52:07 GMT -5
Post by thelion on Mar 6, 2013 18:52:07 GMT -5
FYI - for anybody on this board: in WW2, before we'd developed NAPALM we were actively working on a "Bat-Bomb." Literally! The idea was that we'd drop the bombs over Tokyo ~ noonish or so. The bomb would be activated by parachute, opening up a whole series of cages where a bunch of bats were kept in. The night before they were to be dropped they'd be fitted with a little self-detaching, self-igniting plug which would drop off the bat after a given time, when presumably the bat had found shelter - under somebody's eaves, under their porch, or wherever - and in a city made primarily of wood, a bunch of bats unknowingly starting fires as the bats are trying to find a place to sleep,well, that's going to incinerate the city just as effectively as the NAPALM that ultimately did.* * Oh, to test this system, the military built a fake Japanese block in the middle of the desert outside of Muroc Army Base - where the 509th was testing a bunch of fake nukes and after the war the place ultimately became Edwards Airforce Base - and dropped a 1/3rd scale model of the bomb, not only did the entire block get incinerated within 1/2 hour, BUT buildings all over the nearby army base, including the armory where the bombs and bullets were all kept and the mess-hall where chow was served, were incinerated along with the fake Japanese block. And the next day, the entire program was stamped "THIS IDEA SUCKS!" and the CO and all his men were shipped off to New Guinea.
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