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Bats will eat mosquitos but they prefer larger prey such as moths. Dragonflies eat more mosquitos than bats.
And there has never been a documented case of a bat getting caught in anyone's hair. It's an old wives' tale.
RaZ - I'm glad you mentioned that it's an old wives' tale about bats flying into hair. Doesn't happen. I have a very nice huge bat box that I need to get hung but have read online not to put them on trees because bats actually find the box visually and may not find or use it if it is hidden by branches. I have several nice tall trees with branches very high up, so I'm thinking of using one of them as the box would be far below the branches. Any idea how to keep hornets out of the bat box? My neighbor had a box up for several years and never got bats in it because hornets took it over.
RaZ - So sorry about your hen. I see them all the time, but so far have not had any encounters.
Mama is still on her eggs. I brought her out this morning to stretch her legs and she went around to the front with the flock and took a dirt bath. She was off the eggs for probably 30 to 45 minutes. I was going to get her and put her back but decided to let her be the judge of time and left her alone. I hope she wasn't off too long.
ChicwannaB - I'm so sorry about your bad luck with hatching, especially when you can see how close a few of them came to making it. That's my main reason for not even trying it. Knowing my luck it would turn out the same way. I'll let Mama do her thing, but don't think I'll try incubating myself.
I didn't nessisarily have a bat fly into my hair, but because of a bat I am vaccinated against rabies! Was pretty exciting in an OMG kind of way. A bat was in the house and flying around, so I went to open up windows for it to fly out. Little bugger must have gotten tired and confused so it landed... ON ME. My instinct was to brush it off (this decision happened in like, a nanosecond) and it latched onto my finger. They sure do have sharp little teeth! Then it took off and went out a window into the night
Regardless, I still love bats. At least now if a zombie pandemic cause by a mutated rabies virus breaks out, I may be immune! I had to get both the HRIG for immediate prevention and then a total of four vaccinations over the course of a month, whee!
Bats will eat mosquitos but they prefer larger prey such as moths. Dragonflies eat more mosquitos than bats.
And there has never been a documented case of a bat getting caught in anyone's hair. It's an old wives' tale.
RaZ - I'm glad you mentioned that it's an old wives' tale about bats flying into hair. Doesn't happen. I have a very nice huge bat box that I need to get hung but have read online not to put them on trees because bats actually find the box visually and may not find or use it if it is hidden by branches. I have several nice tall trees with branches very high up, so I'm thinking of using one of them as the box would be far below the branches. Any idea how to keep hornets out of the bat box? My neighbor had a box up for several years and never got bats in it because hornets took it over.
RaZ - So sorry about your hen. I see them all the time, but so far have not had any encounters.
Mama is still on her eggs. I brought her out this morning to stretch her legs and she went around to the front with the flock and took a dirt bath. She was off the eggs for probably 30 to 45 minutes. I was going to get her and put her back but decided to let her be the judge of time and left her alone. I hope she wasn't off too long.
ChicwannaB - I'm so sorry about your bad luck with hatching, especially when you can see how close a few of them came to making it. That's my main reason for not even trying it. Knowing my luck it would turn out the same way. I'll let Mama do her thing, but don't think I'll try incubating myself.
Regardless, I still love bats. At least now if a zombie pandemic cause by a mutated rabies virus breaks out, I may be immune! I had to get both the HRIG for immediate prevention and then a total of four vaccinations over the course of a month, whee!
