QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q. What good are bats? Bats provide humans with many benefits. They eat
millions of insects and save home owners a great deal of money in insect
repellent and electricity from expensive bug zappers and mosquito traps.
Q. How many types of bats live in North America? There are 47 different
species of bats (family chiroptera) in North America with the most abundant
being Mexican freetails. Throughout the world, there are about 2,100 different
bat species with the greatest diversity being found in the tropical rain forest.
Q. How can I help bats? Two main problems exist that threaten the future of
bats: human attitudes towards bats and habitat destruction. Effective
protection of bats will involve a few simple steps. First, people need to be
educated about bats to change their attitudes. Not only can you tell others
about the benefits and uniqueness of bats, but you can also dispel myths and
make it clear that bats are not dangerous (they do not attack people and the
vampire bat is only found in South America). Bats not only eat insects every
night, but they also pollinate plants, disperse seeds and provide food for
natural predators. Secondly, you can put up bat houses that will replace their
dwindling natural habitat and roost. If there are any caves you know of where
bats are hibernating during the winter, please stay out of them since waking
the bats will burn off fat reserves they need to survive and get them to spring.
Q. Do bat houses really work? YES, by putting up the right type of bat house
you are providing a much-needed home for bats. With natural habitat becoming
more and more scarce, you are providing homes for bats to live in. They would
otherwise die if they don't find suitable shelter. And, our bat tubes are BCI (Bat
Conservation International) Certified. They meet all 8 BCI construction criteria.
Plus, our bat tubes have been in use for over 20 years with great success at
filling them. Each tube holds 90-155 bats (depending on the species).
Q. Will bats interfere with my bird feeders? NO!!! Bats do not compete with
birds for either space or food. Bats and birds come out at different times to
forage for their food. Birds feed from sunrise to sunset while bats only feed at
night. And North American bats do not eat bird seeds.
Q. Will bats come back to the same house every year? YES! Once a colony of
bats has established themselves in your bat house, they will return to use it
every year (in the southern states, some bat species even hibernate in our bat
tubes).
Q. Don't bats carry rabies? As for the danger of getting rabies from a bat,
when a bat eats an insect that has just fed on a rabid animal, it immediately
gets so sick that it looses its ability to fly and falls to the ground where it dies
within 24 hours. A rabid bat never makes it back to where it lives. This is why
entire colonies of bats do not get wiped out by a single infected bat. On
average, only 1-out-of-30,000 bats even dies of rabies. Also, never handle any
dead animal that is found in nature since you don't know what it died from.
Q. What good are bats? Bats provide humans with many benefits. They eat
millions of insects and save home owners a great deal of money in insect
repellent and electricity from expensive bug zappers and mosquito traps.
Q. How many types of bats live in North America? There are 47 different
species of bats (family chiroptera) in North America with the most abundant
being Mexican freetails. Throughout the world, there are about 2,100 different
bat species with the greatest diversity being found in the tropical rain forest.
Q. How can I help bats? Two main problems exist that threaten the future of
bats: human attitudes towards bats and habitat destruction. Effective
protection of bats will involve a few simple steps. First, people need to be
educated about bats to change their attitudes. Not only can you tell others
about the benefits and uniqueness of bats, but you can also dispel myths and
make it clear that bats are not dangerous (they do not attack people and the
vampire bat is only found in South America). Bats not only eat insects every
night, but they also pollinate plants, disperse seeds and provide food for
natural predators. Secondly, you can put up bat houses that will replace their
dwindling natural habitat and roost. If there are any caves you know of where
bats are hibernating during the winter, please stay out of them since waking
the bats will burn off fat reserves they need to survive and get them to spring.
Q. Do bat houses really work? YES, by putting up the right type of bat house
you are providing a much-needed home for bats. With natural habitat becoming
more and more scarce, you are providing homes for bats to live in. They would
otherwise die if they don't find suitable shelter. And, our bat tubes are BCI (Bat
Conservation International) Certified. They meet all 8 BCI construction criteria.
Plus, our bat tubes have been in use for over 20 years with great success at
filling them. Each tube holds 90-155 bats (depending on the species).
Q. Will bats interfere with my bird feeders? NO!!! Bats do not compete with
birds for either space or food. Bats and birds come out at different times to
forage for their food. Birds feed from sunrise to sunset while bats only feed at
night. And North American bats do not eat bird seeds.
Q. Will bats come back to the same house every year? YES! Once a colony of
bats has established themselves in your bat house, they will return to use it
every year (in the southern states, some bat species even hibernate in our bat
tubes).
Q. Don't bats carry rabies? As for the danger of getting rabies from a bat,
when a bat eats an insect that has just fed on a rabid animal, it immediately
gets so sick that it looses its ability to fly and falls to the ground where it dies
within 24 hours. A rabid bat never makes it back to where it lives. This is why
entire colonies of bats do not get wiped out by a single infected bat. On
average, only 1-out-of-30,000 bats even dies of rabies. Also, never handle any
dead animal that is found in nature since you don't know what it died from.
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| Construction process showing plate at top of tubes with guano to attract bats. |
| Internal webbing provides additional hanging surfaces for bats to pack in even tighter than earlier models. These new Bat Tubes fill completely from top to bottom. |
| Original design only had hollow tubes with stucco applied inside and out. The bats would cling to the textured walls on the insides of the tubes, but could not huddle close enough together to control the inside temperature. They would usually only stay at the very top of the enclosure. |
| Our next internal modification was to insert smaller tubes inside the main tube that ran the entire length of the container. This allowed the bats to pack in tighter and increased the surface area greatly to allow more bats to live inside. This improvement also encouraged the bats to use the full length of the tube instead of just the top section, but the centers of the smaller tubes often did not get used. |
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| STUCCO BAT HOUSE Are you tired of wooden bat houses that dry out and crack after only a few years of being out in the weather? We have a better design solution. We use high-density plastic tubing as the base for our bat houses. We then chemically etch stucco both inside and outside the tubes. This keeps the sun from ever hitting the plastic surface (ultra-violet light from the sun will break down plastic over time and this process keeps the plastic from ever being exposed to the sun's rays). We then stretch nylon webbing straps the full length of the inside of the tube 8 times to provide a suitable surface for the bats to cling to (they will also cling to the stucco walls on the inside of the tube). The webbing is then locked in place with stainless-steel rivets that will never rust through (see bottom view of house showing webbing and rivets in the below pictures). In the top of the tube, we have added a plate that has guano on it so the house already has an inviting odor to attract the bats. Finally, we've included galvanized mounting hardware (see picture) designed to hang your new bat house on a 2" schedule 40 galvanized pipe that you can purchase at any local pipe store (this comes in 21' lengths and sells for around $30 - use the full length by placing about 3' into concrete and hanging the bat house at the very top). You can even mount up to 4 bat tubes on the same pole. Another great place to mount these bat tubes is on the side of a building or the trunk of a large tree. We've even mounted them on the sides of telephone poles. Just cut the clamps in half, flatten and drill holes for wood screws to attach the units. Shipping dimensions are 7" x 7" x 30" with a weight of 9 pounds. |
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| So, as you can see, our Bat Towers are manufactured from the highest quality materials, have gone through two decades of refinements and having bats around is great for the environment! |