Anyone else notice a lot of bats flying around your house this year?

[NNN0LHI]

In 23 years living here I can't remember ever seeing one before. But now if I go outside in the evening there are 30-40 bats flying around my back yard eating bugs. Flying up close to me too. Kind of unnerving.

Last year it was toads and tree frogs everywhere. Think I prefer them.

Don

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. we love the bats

we put up bat boxes and maintain them...they eat mosquitoes and THAT is a wonderful thing...

sP

[jberryhill]

2. Why do you ask?

Bats? Why, no. We have no bats here. Come in and... see for yourself. I assure you that you will find no bats in our captivating home.

[Petrushka]

12. Wish there was a "Like" button.

[murielm99]

17. He looks like he could be Travolta's grandpa. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I am in favor of bats. They eat mosquitoes.

It's possible that you have more mosquitoes than usual this year; if so, you're seeing more bats, who are eating them.

[NNN0LHI]

7. I am thinking the family of foxes in my back yard ate all the toads and tree frogs this year

And they used to eat a lot of bugs. So now without the toads and tree frogs there is an explosion of flying bugs and the bats have moved in to pick up the slack.

That is what I think anyway.

Don

[kentuck]

4. We had hundreds of large dragonflies...

two or three weeks ago. And they would fly very high and come swooping down and make all kinds of fancy maneuvers. I had never seen as many dragonflies in my life. For some reason, they all seemed to be in my and my neighbor's back yard??

[teddy51]

5. No, just the crazy old one that I'm married to....

[tabasco]

6. Nope. White Nose has wiped them out.

I hope they can recover.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. True - bats are dying out in many parts of the country - nearly 7 million dead

The federal government has heavily regulated visits to caves on government land to keep the disease from spreading further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nose_syndrome

[Brother Buzz]

8. Twice a year, we're visited by migrating bats

They hang around for a week or two. Every evening I can count hundreds passing my house in ten minutes, or so. Maybe a thousand or two pass every evening. My counting ceases when the light disappears.

[madinmaryland]

9. They are eating the stinkbugs that have invaded us!!

[onehandle]

10. Bats are good people. nt

[greytdemocrat]

11. I've got lots of bats...

They eat the skeeters. Nature is a good thing!

[B Calm]

14. I have a small farm pond in my front yard. I see

bats all summer, but no more than usual. .

[Arkansas Granny]

15. I see a bat every now and then, but I haven't noticed any more than usual. I wish there

were more. Anything that eats mosquitos is a friend of mine.

I have a lot of toads and snakes around the house. I recognize some of the toads by their size and color and they seem to frequent the same area of the yard like they've staked out territory. I don't know what kind of snakes I have, but they are small, kind of brownish gray and have little rounded snouts. If I run across them while I'm working in my flower beds, I just move them out of the way so I don't hurt them by accident. Since I don't use any pesticides, there's plenty of bugs for the critters to eat.

[lonestarnot]

16. Don't look up. If they poop in your eyes you could get rabies if the bat that pooped in yer eye has

rabies. Almost impossible to catch the one who pooped in your eye if there is a bunch of them.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

18. Grab the 12ga !!!

J/K, lol.

[The Straight Story]

19. I think it is all part of the studio's plan to get more people to see Batman (tn)