Mosquito traps

[Loco Gato]

Anyone had any luck with those propane fueled ones?

TIA

 

[Binary_BillTheSailor]

I don't know anything about them, but a recent issue of Consumer
Reports says both the American Biophysics Mosquito Magnet Liberty
($500) and the Lentek Mosquito Trap MK01 ($325) work. Though
performance was rated equal the Magnet Liberty was rated substantially
more convenient to use. An Applica SonicWeb ICH 500 didn't work as
well.

A bat eats 1000 mosquitoes a day, requires no maintenance or
refilling, and costs nothing except the cost of building a bat house.

BB

 

[Kyle Boatright]

A bat eats 1000 mosquitoes a day, requires no maintenance or
refilling, and costs nothing except the cost of building a bat house.

BB

I'm all for bats and bat houses. The problem is that there are no
guarantees that they will choose to inhabit the structure you build for
them. Even if they do eventually decide to inhabit your structure, it may
take them years to discover it so they can colonize it.

There is a colony of millions of bats that lives under/inside a bridge in
Austin Texas. Obviously an ideal bat habitat. Nonetheless, it took years
for the bats to find and begin nesting in the bridge...

I'm all for bats and bat houses.

KB

 

[Jim Mc Namara]

www.google.com

search words: bat house plans

results: 191,000 possible hits

 

[Eric Scantlebury]

I also have no idea what I'm doing right, but unintentionally and
really against my wishes, I get bats inside my house once in a while
(and maybe there's a bunch living with me fulltime, unbeknownst to
me). I'm having the roof torn off and replaced right now, which ought
to take care of any entries via that media. But this does raise the
question for me: where would I find good bat house plans? How high
do these houses have to be?

Well, looks like you already have one. Just happens that you live there too

 

[Steve Hollis]

Here's a bat house link

http://www.batcon.org/bhra/economyhouse.html

 

[John Gilmer]

I'm all for bats and bat houses. The problem is that there are no
guarantees that they will choose to inhabit the structure you build for
them. Even if they do eventually decide to inhabit your structure, it may
take them years to discover it so they can colonize it.

Not only that but bat urine is the method by which most fatal of rabies are
passed onto humans.

 

[Steve Hollis]

Not only that but bat urine is the method by which most fatal of rabies
are

passed onto humans.

I don't think so, john. I believe Taxoplasmosis is a more likey danger from
guano than rabies.


http://www.state.sd.us/doh/disease/Bat Rabies poster.pdf

http://www.batcon.org/rabies.html

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/bats_&_rabies/bats&.htm

 

[Binary_BillTheSailor]

[email protected]++.com wrote

1. Bats usually sleep during the day.

A day is 24 hours

2. I heard that bats don't go after mosquiots usually only larger insects.

I have heard that too, but I can tell you first hand that it doesn't
seem to be true. My yard, which is not far from a wetlands is
relatively mosquito free since I got bats. Before that, they were a
major problem. That's what prompted me to build bat houses.

BB

 

[jmagerl]

for everyone that says bats work, there will be someone that says they
don't. I used to have a barn that had a population of 79+ bats (large brown
variety). For most summers, the mosquitoes just followed you around in a
cloud, if you ever stood still and that cloud found you.....lets put it this
way....you lost a quart of blood just going from the front door to the car
(a distance of 20ft). The bats did couldnt control them.

I currently live in an area where I can turn on my outside light and watch
the bats fly thru the light. Again, the mosquitoes are horrible. I can also
say a Mosquito Magnet does nothing either

This is northwest Suburban Chicago.

 

[A]

Tell 'George' bats are harboring WMD's - he'll whack 'em.