They say interior temperatures should be warm and as stable as possible (ideally 80º F to 100º F in summer) for mother bats to raise their young. Occupancy in rural areas is over 60 percent, compared to 50 percent for urban and suburban areas.Īccording to BCI maintaining proper roost temperatures is probably the single most important factor for a successful bat house. Tall designs like the multi-chamber (nursery) and rocket-style houses perform best
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I am merely going to summarize some of the more pertinent information and would encourage you to visit if you want to learn more or have enough interest to construct, or buy, a bat house to install in your yard.īelow are some basics of presenting a bat house.īat houses installed on buildings or poles are easier for bats to locate, have greater occupancy rates and are occupied two and a half times faster than those mounted on trees. There's a lot of information about success rates of various types of bat houses and, perhaps more importantly, how they are presented. Now that I’ve attracted bats to this house I am planning on putting up at least one more before next spring. So, perhaps it was just time needed for bats to locate my house. The rest needed three to five years for bats to move in. Bats are not blind as the saying goes but in fact have sharp eye sight.īCI ( Bat Conservation International) indicates 90 percent of occupied bat houses were used within two years (with 50 percent occupancy in the first year). They investigate new roosting opportunities while foraging at night, and they are expert at detecting crevices, cracks, and nooks and crannies that offer shelter from the elements and predators. I hardly think that would increase the chances of a box being used.īats have to find new roosts on their own. The only thing about the “Rocket” style house that’s different is Downy woodpeckers have pecked a couple of holes in it ranging in size from about 1 ½” to 3” in diameter. The bat house has been in the same place for several years. What did you do to encourage them”? The fact is I’ve done nothing different and I wish I knew why we have this surge in numbers. One customer asked “why do you think you have more bats this year. I have invested a fair amount of time researching bats the last month or so trying to learn more about the fascinating creatures sharing my yard this summer.Īfter last week’s blog about my recent success with bats a few customers had questions.
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