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

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I was looking at maybe using bats to keep the bugs away. Any of you have experience with a bat house?

Originally Posted by BigTruckDriver

I was looking at maybe using bats to keep the bugs away. Any of you have experience with a bat house?

When the wife & I lived in southern New Mexico we had dozens of them around our place and the neighbors. Worked great!

Put one up 3 years ago, still no residents............even put out milk and cookies.............



Hmmmmmm......maybe this is another "crisis" that our future president can add to the LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG list of things we should worry about and only a government program can fix.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Put one up 3 years ago, still no residents............even put out milk and cookies.............



Hmmmmmm......maybe this is another "crisis" that our future president can add to the LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG list of things we should worry about and only a government program can fix.

Try putting out a half litre of warm blood----No,, No, nevermind!!! You don't want that kind of bat!!!!!

I thought about a "cat house" for while but the wife wasn't too happy about that! (LOL)

Pat

bats? i dont need no stinkin bats!! i got bats here , i got bats there , i got bats in my barn , i got bats in my belfry!!
i will give them away , come and pick up all you want free to CHR members
come one come all for your bat deficiences.....

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..

You can have mine..... but it has a small DING in it

Quite a few around my way. I wanted to put one up last year, but the wife said no way in hell was she going to have one within a mile of the house. What she don't know is that they are already here. One fell out of the deck umbrella last year when I cranked it up. He was not a happy camper being that I woke him up in the middle of a sunny afternoon.

The best stuff ive ever used, is the army issue bug lotion, it comes in a standard green bottle. That stuff kinda burns the skin a little, but no bugs, even the yellow flies and the sand fleas hate it.