Tuesday, September 23, 2008






I think I need to put up some bat boxes.


Buck said...

Now that bug zapper just looks COOL. I had one of those big-ass electric ones hanging on patios-and-decks-past and it was Insect Shock And Awe when a June bug flew into that thing. Verrah entertaining, that was.

Anonymous said...

My bat boxes have made a large dent in the flying critter population. The info I researched alluded to somewhere around 1000 mosquitos a nite are needed to keep a brown bat fat and sassy

Barbara Bruederlin said...

We used to have a little brown bat living inside our patio umbrella for two summers. It was adorable and fascinating, although the cat was the mst fascinated. Did cut into the mosquitoes though.

~Fathairybastard~ said...

LOVE to hear the bats chirp at night. And when you're wavin' that thing around, does it make a sound like a light saber? OK, I'm just a huge nerd. I'll slink away now.

Rabbit said...

Ah crap. I meant to go to Fry's and pick one of those Bug Rackets up tonight, but I stopped at Micro Center instead. I did score a cool binary clock, though.

I'd just end up using the bug racket on the damned kid, though.

Bat boxes would just be so cool at your place, though. I imagine that you could find room in the budget for a few. I keep meaning to build one for my backyard, but they roost in the trees at the fenceline anyway.


Dr. B said...

Had one of these when I lived in the Caribbean for medical school and I loved it! The little blue spark in the dark when something fried was the best. My friend shocked himself with it too many times to count.