#bat box

Bat update

Letdown anons proving yet again to have worms for brains.

"He literally wants to have bats and hedgehogs in his house."

They think the hedgehog gateways, insect hotels, bat boxes etc will be INSIDE the property! I am screaming.

🤣🤣🤣 Bat boxes are located on the outside wall of a house, on trees or on fences. Hedgehog gateways and insect hotels also belong in the garden. These Harry haters are scarily ignorant people.

On this merry Bat Appreciation Day, I figured best way to appreciate bats through art would be to draw a bat whose birthday just so happen to fall on this fine day!

Happy Birthday, TikiBat from twitter! And merry Bat Appreciation Day, ya’ll!

Enjoy!

First, we implemented a “no kill” policy with native spiders. So basically the only spiders we kill in our yard are the invasive Brown Widow species. It might creep me out a bit to come across so many of them but they’re doing a damn good job of pest controlling.

Next, we bought a bat box to try and attract some bats to help out with the mosquitoes and other insects, but we don’t seem to have any yet. Hoping that our suburban soundscape isn’t too loud for them and eventually some will find their way here.

The pest control measure I’ve been enjoying the most, and has been completely accidental, was attracting hummingbirds to our yard. I see them out the window of my office everyday eating large numbers of gnats, mosquitos, and other flying insects. To be honest, I felt rather dumb because I never thought about hummingbirds eating anything other than nectar before. But I’ve been loving the action because they are like little attack helicopters. Plus they sit right outside the window and groom themselves which is pretty funny.