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Article: Bats befuddle and annoy small Arizona school. (Originated from Arizona Republic)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- September 7, 1994
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PHOENIX _ Lisa Herrington is on the lookout as she roams the corridors of her crumbling schoolhouse.
But the eighth-grader at Solomonville Elementary School isn't worried about guns or knives or gang members.
She's worried about bats.
``It's kind of scary when you walk down the hall and there's five of them headed toward your head,'' the 13-year-old said.
Thousands of bats are terrorizing, amusing and befuddling students and teachers in the small southeastern Arizona town of Solomon, three miles east of Safford.
The attic of the century-old school is a haven for a breeding colony of Yuma myotis, a type of bat that can consume up to 3,000 mosquitoes ...
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