From jackrowe@compuserve.com Fri Jan 9 23:50:12 1998 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:36:48 -0500 From: Jack Rowe To: UNC Perm List , Envirolink Perm List Subject: Re: Mosquitoes and Bats [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] Bat boxes are of two general designs... apparently the older design wasn't very effective but the new one is. The old design ignored the way bats reach, or hang in, their roosts, so it's worth finding the new design. Also important is height above ground and orientation. There is an org called something like Bats International that gives out plans for effective bat boxes. Bats supposedly eat so may flying insects, 'skeeters included, that the figures are always hard to believe. I wish I could remember where I put my bat info ("Quick, Robin, hand me my Bat-Info!"... sorry), but I can't (why don't I just throw things straight into the trash?). Does anyone know Bats Int'l's address? A very good, basic book on bats and their habits/houses is one written by Dr. Mervin Tuttle, from Austin, TX, where resides one of the largest urban bat populations in the world (not a Texas tall tale). Jack