seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" x 24".
i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my garage
(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find and use
this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or how
do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......

(WARRENRN1) wrote in
:

seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there
is no standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge
that surrounds the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those
!!!!!! i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly
large.. 18" x 24". i do know that much about bats, but if mount this
on the side of my garage (approximate height is 8' under the fascia
boards) will the bats find and use this, or is it too close to the
ground. we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find
the house or how do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......


for mosquitoes, I think you might be better off with a dragonfly or koi
pond.

To attract bats, press the searchlight button on your DC-Marvel utility
belt. heh, just kidding. no ideas and not going to speculate. just make
sure you have a strategy to deal with the guano.

-- Salty

Last I heard, no one can find a rhyme or reason why bats pick a particular
location to set up a colony, except a lack of predators. Good luck.


"WARRENRN1" wrote in message
...
seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that
surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" x
24".
i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my garage
(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find and
use
this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or
how
do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......

WARRENRN1 wrote:

seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" x 24".
i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my garage
(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find and use
this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or how
do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......


I put one up early this spring. unfortunately, I don't see any
signs of bat's living in it yet. This time of year is too late...
unless you are planning on attracting them next year. I believe it
should be at least 14 foot high, facing south, south east, and away
from trees. Well that's in my area anyway. I'm going to see if a
local exterminator can "transplant" some evicted bats to my bat house.

Tono

WARRENRN1 wrote:
seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and
there is no standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a
large hedge that surrounds the back yard and come dusk, we stay
clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly
large.. 18" x 24". i do know that much about bats, but if mount
this on the side of my garage (approximate height is 8' under
the fascia boards) will the bats find and use this, or is it
too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find
the house or how do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......

Try http://www.batcon.org/

--
Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5

i have heard that if you put bat guano inthe house it will help
attrack them!

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:36:22 GMT, Tono wrote:

"WARRENRN1 wrote:
"
" seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and
there is no
" standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge
that surrounds
" the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
" i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large..
18" x 24".
" i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my
garage
" (approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats
find and use
" this, or is it too close to the ground.
" we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the
house or how
" do i attract them to their new house?
"
" chicago suburbs area.......
"
"
"I put one up early this spring. unfortunately, I don't see any
"signs of bat's living in it yet. This time of year is too late...
"unless you are planning on attracting them next year. I believe it
"should be at least 14 foot high, facing south, south east, and away
"from trees. Well that's in my area anyway. I'm going to see if a
"local exterminator can "transplant" some evicted bats to my bat
house.
"
"Tono

-


To Explain Oneself Is A Sign Of Weakness!

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:15:53 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

for mosquitoes, I think you might be better off with a dragonfly or koi
pond.

I was wondering if anyone has had good results with a goldfish or koi
pond. I would thing that a pond would be one big mosquito magnet,
suck all the larva into one spot, where the fish would eat them. Do
these ponds actually reduce mosquito numbers considerably?

Dan

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 01:38:28 GMT, (dstvns) wrote:

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:15:53 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

for mosquitoes, I think you might be better off with a dragonfly or koi
pond.

I was wondering if anyone has had good results with a goldfish or koi
pond. I would thing that a pond would be one big mosquito magnet,
suck all the larva into one spot, where the fish would eat them. Do
these ponds actually reduce mosquito numbers considerably?

Dan


I have a pond. There are lots of goldfish and rosy red minnows that
hunt down the mosquito larvae. I have read university articles that
state that well-stocked ponds do reduce the mosquito population. But,
the mosquitos find many other good places to lay eggs.

WARRENRN1 said:

seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" x 24".
i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my garage
(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find and use
this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or how
do i attract them to their new house?

Get in touch with the Organization for Bat Conservation. (I've seen their
presentations and bat houses in the flesh.) A lot of bat houses (or bat house
designs) being sold or circulated are not really ideal for bats.

http://www.batconservation.org/conte...e/bathouse.htm
--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

On 02 Jul 2003 21:50:55 GMT, (WARRENRN1) wrote:

seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" x 24".
i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my garage
(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find and use
this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or how
do i attract them to their new house?

chicago suburbs area.......

The subject line made me wonder if there were bats in *my* area that
might be encouraged. I've never seen any. Not much point in putting up
a house if there are no prospective residents within 600mi. University
extention service, or some nature/science establishment suggests
itself.

(WARRENRN1) wrote:

seems we have an over abundance of mosquitoes this year....and there is no
standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that surrounds
the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!

Thin out the hedge and clean out the leaf litter. There are
mosquito species that can breed in a teaspoon of water in a
cupped dead leaf.

we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house or how
do i attract them to their new house?

The construction is VERY exacting ... size, shape, location.
Check the net for bat house plans.



Tsu

--
To doubt everything or to believe everything
are two equally convenient solutions; both
dispense with the necessity of reflection.
- Jules Henri Poincaré

Tsu Dho Nimh wrote:

Thin out the hedge and clean out the leaf litter. There are
mosquito species that can breed in a teaspoon of water in a
cupped dead leaf.

Any particular species? My neighbor's been begging for payback.
How close should I locate the buckets of standing water? How far
from me?

How many 'skeeters could I breed in a 55 gallon trash can?

http://www.batcon.org/

I have a garden pond. It's the only area that is mosquito-free. Or mostly
:-) We live near a bottomland forest in Louisiana and when we leave the
backyard the mosquitoes are thick. I think mosquito control is achieved more
from the dragonflies than the fish though. The pond is home to a few fish,
frogs, toads (in spring) the occasional snake, and hundreds of dragonflies.
We also see alot of bats in summer but they don't stay near the pond like
the dragonflies do. We have standing water in the woods around us, but a
pump keeps the pond water moving. I have never seen mosquito larvae in the
pond. If they ever did breed there, the fish would take care of it, I'm
sure. Pics of my pond below for those who care to see.

--
elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA
http://community.webshots.com/user/elott63


"dstvns" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:15:53 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

for mosquitoes, I think you might be better off with a dragonfly or koi
pond.

I was wondering if anyone has had good results with a goldfish or koi
pond. I would thing that a pond would be one big mosquito magnet,
suck all the larva into one spot, where the fish would eat them. Do
these ponds actually reduce mosquito numbers considerably?

Dan

http://www.batcon.org and go buy some bat guano and steep it in some
awater and hang it near the bat house.
Be patient.

J. Kolenovsky
http://www.celestialhabitats.com

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standing water anywhere that i can find. we have a large hedge that su=
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the back yard and come dusk, we stay clear of those !!!!!!
i was thinking of making a bat house....but this is fairly large.. 18" =
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i do know that much about bats, but if mount this on the side of my gar=
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(approximate height is 8' under the fascia boards) will the bats find a=
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this, or is it too close to the ground.
we have seen a couple of bats around here but will they find the house =
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do i attract them to their new house?
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chicago suburbs area.......

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J. Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP
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