I can't recall if we have big or little brown bats, but which ever it is, they don't tend to hang out in bat houses. Apparently if you want them as a part of your very own personal ecosystem, you have to construct something that looks very like a chimney to them before they colonize it. So, since I'm not sure how putting say a piece of concrete sewer pipe on the roof would go over in the neighborhood, the bats will have to fend for themselves come Winter.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Bat houses I'd be interested to hear more about this as I have thought of building a bat house in our courtyard to help keep the insect population down. Of course, it would keep the bat population up, so not sure that is a plus. I am reminded of a childrens book I read about a kingdom over run by mice, so they bring in cats to get rid of the mice, and then they are over run by cats. So they bring in dogs. Then tigers to get rid of the dogs, then elephants to get rid of the tigers. Then, yes, you guessed it, mice, to scare off the elephants. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew. <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
