> >Bat Conservation International has a web page: > > http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/bat/main.html Also, the latest issue of American Woodworker has plans for a bat house. Sorry, don't have it here at work so I can't get the phone number, but it's widely available on newsstands. Article 19524 of misc.rural: Path: bigblue.oit.unc.edu!concert!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.netins.net!wmcclain From: wmcclain@worf.netins.net (Bill McClain) Newsgroups: misc.rural Subject: Re: Bats Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:00:55 -0600 Organization: INS Information Services, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3v3m5b$3g4@insosf1.netins.net> References: <9550.134.uupcb@twplace.wb3ffv.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: worf.netins.net X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 1.0d5 Tom Lemmen wrote: > Hi: > My wife bought me this "bat house" after she saw > a program on Public TV that said how huge > an amount of insects bats can eat everyday. > > I put the damn thing up real high (like the > instructions said) but Still no residents. > > It's up on my TV tower, about 25 feet off the ground. > There is a light underneath it that attracts bugs > and I see bats flyin' around there every night. > > ANybody got any insights to this problem?? I've been told that it may take quite some time to attract bats. They like to be quite hot during the day, and an eastern exposure for the house is recommended. I cannot vouch for this, but I have also been advised that spreading bat poop under the box will lure them. Makes the site seem more "home-like". Try Bat Conservation International: http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/bat/main.html -Bill