Bat House landscape design

Why we need to protect bats?

Bats not rodents or flying rats.

Bats are Chiropterans: Echo locating, insectivorous mammals that have great levels of ecosystem

services for human primates.

Bats are not blind, but we locate openings, obstacles, and insect prey with echolocation.

Bats do not hibernate but go into torpor.

Bats are not vampire bats -they are in Latin and South America.

Bats do not want to become entangled in your hair.

Bats fear human primate predators.

Bats accidentally enter the interior of most buildings. They are trapped with no escape route out.

They are panicking under these conditions.”

Bats stress and energy expenditure of being trapped in a building often causes death.

Bats are in trouble due to habitat loss, disease, and pesticides used by human primates.

On Mississippi state university campus, I find a good spot for building bat house, and design the landscape for them, which may provide good habitat for them and educate people about bats.

 The site I chose for building bat house

This is the plan for the bat house.