How bats can be helpful guests in your garden 12 Articles

by Kelly A. Mello

Though many people are frightened of bats, they actually have good qualities that you can appreciate. Forget those rumors that they will suck your blood, attack your hair, and give you rabies. They are harmless and actu...read more

by Jennifer Flood

While you may not want bats in your attic they are essential to keeping the mosquito population down in your yard. Bats are more helpful to people than harmful. Throughout the world, bats are responsible for insect control...read more

by Linda Ann Nickerson

HOLY HORTICULTURISTS, BATMAN! Many people fear bats. Maybe it's because they only come out at night. We've all heard the hysteria about rabies, blood-sucking, and other ills from these winged creatures. If we happen to ...read more

by Joyce Priddy

Look at all the bat myths that are around. Bats carry rabies. They bite kids and suck their blood. They swoop down and screech all the time. Bats are evil creatures. They hide out in attics and garages just waiting fo...read more

by Lupine

Bats are voracious eaters of insects. Each one can eat up to five hundred insects per hour. They will keep your garden free of such pesky insects as mosquito's, moths, flies and beetles. Bats also pollinate and disper...read more

by Lori Piper

What is planted in your garden? Orange Cheetos or fruit and plants which love to be devoured by mosquitoes? Do you enjoy pruning your foliage, picking your harvest, only to be bitten and stung? Those moth eaten leaves...read more

by Allyjay

When you think of Bats,Count Dracula comes to kind, so does creepy, eerie and blood thirsty all of which is a pile of nonsense. Bats are highly intelligent creatures who are capable of eating between 30-50% of their own b...read more

by Jared Garrett

Not all bats are scary. Heck, in my world, only the vampire bat is scary. What is interesting to learn is that bats can actually be very helpful guests in one's garden. How? Simple. What do most bats eat? No, they don'...read more

by Liomas Thomas

If you know someone scared of bats, oh the joy you can have, especially at Halloween. But bats are helpful. And if you are bat spooked friend knew how helpful they were, maybe he/she would feel differently. Bats are main...read more

by Welsh Wizard

Well done Kelly you are correct to point out the benefits of bats in our gardens and also to the environment as a whole. But I do feel that you overstate their benefit and tend to generalize to much. Some bats, in particul...read more

by Older But Wiser

Bats get a bad rap! These creatures are so useful around the yard since they thrive on insects-especially mosquitoes. We built a very nice bat house and hung it at the end of my house up high. So far, we cannot tell if the...read more

by Asaria Setemyr

Bats. They're not just in the belfry anymore, and if you've spotted them around your garden at night, don't try to get rid of them, be thankful that they're there. Bats have long had a bad rap in the animal kingdom. T...read more