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Originally Posted by AfterMyNap
Wiz, if you want to eliminate mosquitos, put a few bat houses in your yard. When I worked at a campground during college summers, we often talked about why the mosquitoes were so few there. After a trip to the library we knew that it was because of the dense bat population in the surrounding woods.
Several of my friends have them and swear by it.
http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_prote.../bat_house.asp |
This is exactly what I was going to share. We have a big pond in our back yard. When we moved here, there were already bat boxes high atop the power poles. The bats are still here and I have NEVER seen a mosquito. The bats do not bother us at all.