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Article: Bringing back insect control: Build a back-yard bat box
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1992
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Anyone old enough to remember the "good old days" can remember
seeing dozens of bats, flitting in the sky at dusk, doing their
thing, gobbling up insects, mostly mosquitoes, up to 600 an hour --
each.
If he had a lady friend watching, she might have worried about one
of the furry fliers getting in her hair. She needn't have worried;
bats don't do that. They roost in the day in protected areas, fly
and eat at night, and mind their own business.
Nowadays we may not be seeing many bats at dusk. Oh, perhaps a
few individuals, but not in the masses of the past. That's because
bats are losing their habitats -- caves, mines, barns, even attics --
and have suffered, too, from the misuse of ...