The Bat House
OK, folks, here it is by command performance: the CFO's new bat house!
It's constructed from siding salvaged when the garage was added a few years ago. The black paint? Bats like to live in warm quarters and the black siding provides passive solar heating.
The house is installed about 20 feet off the ground on the sunny side of a maple tree in the garden area. Most bats live on insects and are the gardener's best friend in the bug department.
This house is actually a duplex with two chambers. The vertical board with grooves below the chambers is the landing pad for incoming bats.
The chambers are only three-quarters of an inch wide as bats also like to live in cramped quarters!
I'm not certain exactly what kind of bats we have here on the mountain. It's really quite difficult to know because, amazingly, no less that 25% of all mammalian species are bats.
Bats have a life span of 10 to 30 years and are the smallest mammals to produce a single offspring per year.
It's constructed from siding salvaged when the garage was added a few years ago. The black paint? Bats like to live in warm quarters and the black siding provides passive solar heating.
The house is installed about 20 feet off the ground on the sunny side of a maple tree in the garden area. Most bats live on insects and are the gardener's best friend in the bug department.
This house is actually a duplex with two chambers. The vertical board with grooves below the chambers is the landing pad for incoming bats.
The chambers are only three-quarters of an inch wide as bats also like to live in cramped quarters!
I'm not certain exactly what kind of bats we have here on the mountain. It's really quite difficult to know because, amazingly, no less that 25% of all mammalian species are bats.
Bats have a life span of 10 to 30 years and are the smallest mammals to produce a single offspring per year.
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