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19JUL2020 – Photo of the Day
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
the bat
It is not a pretty sight. But he is a neighbor and at least he eats mosquitoes which is useful. So there he is.
“I am The Bat.”
He has recently moved to the space underneath the door post of my pool shed. Really freaked out Camera Girl when she saw him scurrying away when she opened the door.
My parents live in an old Queen Anne home constructed in 1901. We once had a minor bat infestation, which my dad expended a great deal of energy to combat. However, from time to time, one of the critters would get into the house, which led to a handful of nocturnal, underwear-clad, late-night hunts to get Dracula out of the house. We usually had to use brooms and shoe boxes to stun them, capture them, and toss them outside. Because you can’t just gas ’em out, dad hired a guy who installed a wire mesh that allows the bats… Read more »
I have a balcony on the third level that used to be their roost. I had to put up netting to keep them off the balcony roof. I’m thinking of keeping some wolfsbane up there this summer but maybe that’s unrealistic.