Well, this is silly. Bats like to eat beefy moths and other larger flying
insects. They do eat mosquitoes, but not nearly the amount people'd have
you
believe.

Oh, I don't know about that -- bats DO eat mosquitoes although it's not the
only thing in their diet of course. The very fact that the park district is
actually using a natural approach to pest control is encouraging -- it's
unusual in this area (highly unusual). Our mosquito problems have become
pretty bad in this area and deforestation is becoming a greater and greater
issue. While I doubt putting up bathouses is going to solve the skeeter
problem, it's a worthwhile experiment and it has the added benefit of
providing a habitat to the bats. I'll try to keep an eye out for how
successful (or unsuccessful) they report it to be -- I just hope they don't
expect results now and that they at least set the bathouses up properly.
Sigh

James