SprigOfTheLivingDead
Almost Self-Reliant
Hey everyone,
So I think the topic was touched on in the Mosquito..be gone... thread, but I thought a more specific thread would be helpful on the topic of bat houses.
I have seen them up on poles and on barns but honestly never really looked into building/buying/posting a bat house until last spring and at that point I was looking at them with a side eye because one of the pieces of info I kept running into is that they're not guaranteed to house bats. They're obviously better than not having one, but it's also not a if you build it they will come situation. That being said, who on here has experience with buying and putting up bat houses, be they successful in controlling your mosquito population or not.
As I began my homework I found myself on the Bat Conservation International and realized that with my other projects going on I just didn't have the time to sink into building a bat house when purchasing one could be done for an amount of money that I could stomach. However, hanging it turns out to be the problem, which is where my specific questions for you all come in. If you hung it on a timber tell me how tall and how deep a hole you needed to dig and how successful you found it to be. If you hung it on a tree did you find that to be successful? the Bat Con site specifically calls out to not do that as they are less successful, however, that's obviously the easiest solution and keeps me from having to buy a 16' 4x4 and sink it into the ground with cement.
Anyways, to simply say it: I want to learn from your experience. Have you installed them? Have you had success with them? Was it worth the time and effort or did it not even make a dent in your skeeter population.
my location is Minnesota where our state bird is the mosquito
So I think the topic was touched on in the Mosquito..be gone... thread, but I thought a more specific thread would be helpful on the topic of bat houses.
I have seen them up on poles and on barns but honestly never really looked into building/buying/posting a bat house until last spring and at that point I was looking at them with a side eye because one of the pieces of info I kept running into is that they're not guaranteed to house bats. They're obviously better than not having one, but it's also not a if you build it they will come situation. That being said, who on here has experience with buying and putting up bat houses, be they successful in controlling your mosquito population or not.
As I began my homework I found myself on the Bat Conservation International and realized that with my other projects going on I just didn't have the time to sink into building a bat house when purchasing one could be done for an amount of money that I could stomach. However, hanging it turns out to be the problem, which is where my specific questions for you all come in. If you hung it on a timber tell me how tall and how deep a hole you needed to dig and how successful you found it to be. If you hung it on a tree did you find that to be successful? the Bat Con site specifically calls out to not do that as they are less successful, however, that's obviously the easiest solution and keeps me from having to buy a 16' 4x4 and sink it into the ground with cement.
Anyways, to simply say it: I want to learn from your experience. Have you installed them? Have you had success with them? Was it worth the time and effort or did it not even make a dent in your skeeter population.
my location is Minnesota where our state bird is the mosquito
