So I'm thinking about building a bat habitat...

Due to the recent focus on unwanted bugs, I've been researching natrual and organic ways to get this under control. There's a lot of info about planting a plant that repels a certain pest next to one that attracts it and atracting natual priditors such as ladybugs to eat those distructive little bad guys. The coolest thing I've read so far is building a bat house.

Apparently a singe bat eats 600-1000 mosquitos an hour (yes, an hour) and loves to munch on my two new arch enimes, the aformentioned squash vine borers and cucumber beatles. I think it's a fantastic idea. It's practically free, totally natrual, and will be a great teaching tool for the kids. For those of you who think I'm nuts and putting my family at risk, I've looked up the danger of rabies (especially since a bat with rabies was found not far from here yesterday-ironic huh?) and it's more likely to win the state lottery or be killed by my spouce then it is to be bit by a rabid bat. I do still need to look into the guano situatioin. Will it be a problem? Is it dangerous? Will there be a much higher percentage, say, in the kids sand box etc... Really though if that isn't an obsical, this sounds like the perfect solution.

Wes asked if we were becomming a wildlife reserve, lol. We have a box turtle habitat with two lovely turtles, Andy, the boy and Franklin, the girl (we named them before we kew their sex) We may have more next year. The other day Eliya said "Hey mom, Andy's on top of Franklin!" *sigh* Hey maybe we can get a grant, 2 turtles, 4 bats and a compost pile of worms screams sactuary to me!!

Hmm, I thought I had a pic of the turtles. I guess I'll have to get one up. I did take pics of our school area. It's so cute. I'll try to get those up tomarrow, too.