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- From: charvey@teal.csn.org (Chip Harvey)
- Subject: Re: I was dive bombed by a bat!
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:27:57 GMT
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- What attracts bats? I'm no bat expert either. But I do recall an incident at
- the University of Florida (Gainesville) last year or the year before.
- Concerned administrators built an attractive (to the bat) "bat house" in a
- rural area of campus near Lake Alice (mosquitos) to lure bats from some of the
- campus buildings they had adopted over the years. As I recall, what made
- the bat house "attractive" to the bats was a large amount of guano put
- inside. Apparently, bats (as do most mammals) have a well developed olfactory
- sense. The key then was to eliminate the attractive smell of sh_t from
- the campus buildings (!), and seal the holes the bats used to enter. A
- hibernating bat probably doesn't do much guanoing, and so bat assemblages
- due to the scent of guano probably isn't something to worry about
- during the winter.
-
- I don't know how the "Bat House" experiment turned out; maybe some UF
- netters could comment.
-