Thread: Any of you guys/gals have a bat house?

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Thats the thing I have been researching a little and I can put up a small bat house but there is no real answers on how many will show up. . I live next to a lot that is OVERGROWN with trees and a very small pond. When the skeeters start to attack is not fun to be outside. I spray off on my body and the go to my head. I spray on the head and they go to the face. I spray on my face and they go to my hands . I spray on my hands and they go in between my fingers . I spray all over my hands and they go up the bottom of my shorts . By the time I am done spraying off I am DIZZY from the chemicals.

Here's what you do. Go outside in the evening and look up where the bugs are congregating around a light. If you see bats, you already have some and they have a home. and apparently don't care about finding a new one. My houses have been empty for years but we have bats galore. That is not Pussy Galores sister. If you don't see any, they aren't there and will probably never get to see the bat house unless a bat realtor brings them around to show it. So you will want to get it listed as soon as possible.

Originally Posted by BigTruckDriver

Thats the thing I have been researching a little and I can put up a small bat house but there is no real answers on how many will show up. . I live next to a lot that is OVERGROWN with trees and a very small pond. When the skeeters start to attack is not fun to be outside. I spray off on my body and the go to my head. I spray on the head and they go to the face. I spray on my face and they go to my hands . I spray on my hands and they go in between my fingers . I spray all over my hands and they go up the bottom of my shorts . By the time I am done spraying off I am DIZZY from the chemicals.

get yourself a bottle of "skin so soft" your wife will know what it is , the skeeters hate the stuff and it will make your skin all soft and girley at the same time.... really the stuff kicks butte

I have a "batroom" in the garage, just a toilet and utility sink.

Originally Posted by flh4speed

get yourself a bottle of "skin so soft" your wife will know what it is , the skeeters hate the stuff and it will make your skin all soft and girley at the same time.... really the stuff kicks butte

The only thing that will work is DEET, the higher the concentration the more it will keep the Mosquitoes away. DEET is toxic but other then having a Bee Keepers net nothing else works. I wish someone could prove me wrong, but believe me I know they cannot. I would really appreciate something other then DEET but it just isn't going to happen. We have tried everything, we have tall pine trees around our house and at night we can see the bats but they can only eat so many. I’m saying this with 13 years of trying everything that people suggest. I have researched the Internet and read reports from the Military testing products, again I hate to say it but it’s true. Prove me wrong!!!

Richard

Originally Posted by ford2custom

The only thing that will work is DEET, the higher the concentration the more it will keep the Mosquitoes away. DEET is toxic but other then having a Bee Keepers net nothing else works. I wish someone could prove me wrong, but believe me I know they cannot. I would really appreciate something other then DEET but it just isn't going to happen. We have tried everything, we have tall pine trees around our house and at night we can see the bats but they can only eat so many. I’m saying this with 13 years of trying everything that people suggest. I have researched the Internet and read reports from the Military testing products, again I hate to say it but it’s true. Prove me wrong!!!

Richard

i grew up in south louisiana and now reside in mississippi...... your wrong , theres all kinds of products and home remidies that work , i also work on a towboat and wheter you believe it or not the mississippi river has a few skeeters , my guys goop theirselves with skin so soft and have not had any problems the last ten years sence they ditched using off..

Originally Posted by flh4speed

i grew up in south louisiana and now reside in mississippi...... your wrong , theres all kinds of products and home remidies that work , i also work on a towboat and wheter you believe it or not the mississippi river has a few skeeters , my guys goop theirselves with skin so soft and have not had any problems the last ten years sence they ditched using off..

Don't get me wrong; if you or anyone else could help with this problem I'd be more then happy to say I'm wrong. If I had lots of money I would say send your crew up here and I would pay them to work around my house. About two days they would be packing up and heading out.

I would like to be wrong but like I said I’ve been dealing with these Mosquitoes for 13 years at our current home. I’ve tried everything people have suggested. Some people would swear by fabric softener sheets, they say to put them in your shirt pocket and they will repel the Mosquitoes but they didn’t. I’ve used mineral oil, skin so soft, the only thing that dose is that it makes it harder for the Mosquitoes to pierce the skin because the oil is slick. I do not doubt that you have Mosquitoes where you live, but these will make you swear like crazy. If anyone would come up with a sure fire way of repelling Mosquitoes with out DEET they would get rich real quick. I would be the first in line to buy a case, quart, or gallon. Or whatever it would come in.

I wish I were wrong when I can’t get outside without getting eaten up.

If it works for you great, I wish it would work here but it doesn’t.

This site talks about skin so soft, and other home remidies.

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/skeeters.asp

Richard

Richard I know what you mean. Mosquitoes have dining preferences. If I'm alone in the house, they go for me, but if the wifes around, it's open season on her...she's sweeter in their opinion!
I've had luck with skin so soft in mild areas, but while working in the Florida Keys, and Everglades, nothing but the highest DEET content will keep them off you. The Deet was so high it would melt the plastic on your watch. And if you missed a spot with the Deet, they'd find it in a heart beat! When we were kids, we used to take B complex, which creates an ordor on your skin that repells them a little. We experimented, and some took it, some didn't, those who didn't got bit quite a bit more!
Worse than the squeeters is the no see umms. Damb those guys! They get through screens!

Originally Posted by stovens

Richard I know what you mean. Mosquitoes have dining preferences. If I'm alone in the house, they go for me, but if the wifes around, it's open season on her...she's sweeter in their opinion!
I've had luck with skin so soft in mild areas, but while working in the Florida Keys, and Everglades, nothing but the highest DEET content will keep them off you. The Deet was so high it would melt the plastic on your watch. And if you missed a spot with the Deet, they'd find it in a heart beat! When we were kids, we used to take B complex, which creates an ordor on your skin that repells them a little. We experimented, and some took it, some didn't, those who didn't got bit quite a bit more!
Worse than the squeeters is the no see umms. Damb those guys! They get through screens!

I first came across the skin so soft about 20 years ago, it seemed to help but that was in the city. Where we live now is a different ball game, I must have awful bad blood or what ever is best for them, they get on me like stink on sh-t. When you can't get outside, when you wait for the Weather to change it gets frustrating. The only way you can be in the garage a night is to have the doors shut and it's 90 degree's with 90 percent humidity. Even with the doors shut they will find a way to get in. They like to get you just under the eye when you have both hands working with something. If someone had a good remedy other then DEET, I would be all for it. Ticks, and Fleas are bad also. If they could come up with something for people like Cats, and Dogs I would be the first to try it.

Richard