Re: Fwd: bats - if you built a bat house, will they come?

**A*@aol.com**

The Clinton Community Garden keeps fish in the pools of water we have (we  
have some koi fanciers) and covers a water barrel by the shed and the compost  
tea a volunteer has working( despite the fact that we also have piped water).  
And every year we order beneficial insects, some of whom hang around for a  
while. 

All of this in an extremely urban environment - midtown Manhattan.   That 
said, the city does come around with its spraying trucks in the height of  the 
summer, doing the street, neighborhood by neighborhood. Yes it's  controversial, 
but the cost, law-suit wise to the municipality, if they did  nothing would 
be immense. So they do it - and it becomes another environmental  toxin we deal 
with, along with tons of automobile and truck fumes and  particulate. This 
ain't no pure enviornment, by any stretch of the imagination. 

That said, due to a bat sighting we had in the neighborhood, we erected a  
small bat house on a pole. Don't see bats much - the question is, if you build a 
 bat house, with they come?

Regards, 
Adam Honigman
Hell's Kitchen
NYC 

Here are  the facts on bats and mosquitoes

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From: OBCBats@aol.com <OBCBats@aol.com>
Date: Apr 11,  2006 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: bats
To: minifarms@gmail.com

In a  message dated 4/10/06 4:53:40 PM, minifarms@gmail.com writes:

<<  I have always heard that bats eat mosquitos.  Now I heard they do  not.
What

is correct?

Ken Hargesheimer  >>

Some bats eat mosquitoes more than others.  There are 45  different bats in
the US and Canada and not all of them are regular  mosquitoe eaters, but many
consume a considerable amount.  Thanks for  your interest in bats.

Rob Mies
Director, Biologist, Educator,  Author
Organization for Bat Conservation
@ Cranbrook Institute of  Science
39221 Woodward Ave.
PO Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI  48303
248-645-3232 ext. 9
www.batconservation.org

5th Annual  Great Lakes Bat Festival

August 4th and 5th, 2006

at Cranbrook  Institute of Science

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Bats," written by OBC  founders Rob Mies and Kim Williams.  This first guide
to
bats  includes how to identify bats, construct bat houses, attract bats, and
much  more!

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