Mosquito Magnet...anybody have one??

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by Raven

bat boxes are simply bird houses with no bottom
attached to the north side of the tree for coolness
as high as possible...
and inside is some wire mesh for them to cling to
as they hang upside down....bats will eat their own weight
in bugs each night

I lived in San Antonio TX for 3yrs.The mosquito is non existant because of the Freetail bats.From what I remember after taking the tour of Bracken Caves was that those two colonies alone eat 250 tons of insects a night!That was back in '87.These days almost every overpass,bridge and railroad trestle in south TX harbors a sizable population.

If you're ever down there and get the chance to go to the caves it is one of the most awesome things to witness those bats leaving at sundown. Television can never do it justice.

[Raven]

basswipe why free tail bats haven't migrated to the east coast....
considering it snows in texas quite a bit now...

i urge anyone who is passing thru carlsbad new mexico to go see
carlsbad caverns the caves in there are astounding....
afterwards............
there's a mini amphi theatre outside...where you sit directly
in front of the mouth of the cave... thats completely covered
with swallow nests made out of clay.... in the hundreds of thousands
but the real MIND blower is when it turns to dusk and the several millions
of bats , probably freetail bats (not sure) [chime in basswipe] come
out to begin feeding on insects....here we have itty bitty lil bats
(hell i've knocked-em into the water sweetwater fishing with my rod tip....)
but out there their wing span is like twelve inches wide....and they come pouring out of there so thick that the star filled night sky completely
disapears from view and you find yourself wanting to run for your life...
because its just so unbelievable a site.... that your SCARED at first.
extremely impressive.... and your right basswipe tv and even the movies cannot show it ...compared to being there in person....

[PeteGBR]

Breaks the surface tension and kills bacteria that make water stagnant.
small amount of soap in dirty ponds does the same trick i guess.

[Clammer]

I,ll be putting oneup on e-bay //as soon as it,s available [a day or two] //still in the box / don,t know D/S about it