Bats

[bulldogg]

Originally Posted by GoStateNate

Wow, once huh?

Yep, and it would suck to get rabies once.

Your 1/200 odds just aren't high enough for me ... I'll be careful around those ugly suckers.

[MSUchick77]

Originally Posted by GoStateNate

Wow, once huh?

The house my friends and I lived in for 2 years in college had a bat (probably the same one since once they find a way in, your screwed) find its way into our house twice just days before we were moving out.

[Blake Ezor]

Originally Posted by MSUchick77

I was just outside underneath the streetlights chatting about hockey w/ one of my neighbors and I was almost divebombed by a bat!

Do they get that close to humans all the time?

WTF were you talking about hockey? Sorry, but you had it coming.

[hausman]

....bats are actually in dire need of some respect. They aren't blind, they see quite well, they will not fly into nor care for, humans...they do however, eat >1000 mosquitoes/day and only really come around at night.

I Lived on acreage in dark woods with a pond, which you expect mosquitoes to thrive..yet I had 2 bat houses, etc.....and almost NO mosqu...bats are very cool, actually and they will never, ever fly into your face, your hair, nothing...all junk..they not only see you, but the sonar ****.....

If you are SE mi. and can see the bat exhibit at cranbrook, it is well worth it! Bats with 6' wingspans...

put up a bat house and within 1 yr you will not have ANY mosquitoe problem.

[GoStateNate]

Originally Posted by hausman

....bats are actually in dire need of some respect. They aren't blind, they see quite well, they will not fly into nor care for, humans...they do however, eat >1000 mosquitoes/day and only really come around at night.

I Lived on acreage in dark woods with a pond, which you expect mosquitoes to thrive..yet I had 2 bat houses, etc.....and almost NO mosqu...bats are very cool, actually and they will never, ever fly into your face, your hair, nothing...all junk..they not only see you, but the sonar ****.....

If you are SE mi. and can see the bat exhibit at cranbrook, it is well worth it! Bats with 6' wingspans...

put up a bat house and within 1 yr you will not have ANY mosquitoe problem.

hausman gets it.

[hausman]

....thanx. you get mosquitoes who drink your blood and leave you itching for days--- bats eat the F'ers by the thousand and, despite your freak-outed-ness never would come close to ya, promise...

theyr'e money...i love not only watching them dive-bomb pests at dusk (which by the way they look cool doing) but the fact that i dont have to swat my calf every 5 seconds cuz of what they took down last night....bats rock, build a house for em.


i think: www.cranbrook.edu

has a bat site for plans for a house, fyi...took the bat tour with my kid and already had 2 up!

[SpartanJT]

Originally Posted by MSUchick77

*I need to find a fierce Dantonio Grackle to protect me.

That sounds like a sweet forum name...Dantonio's Grackle.

[SpartanJT]

By the way, fruit bats are the coolest:

[hausman]

Originally Posted by SpartanJT

That sounds like a sweet forum name...Dantonio's Grackle.

gotta donate and register that, youre dead-on ! its mine!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Deeelicious]

...and has little kids:

Cranbrook exhibit is next for us.

[hausman]

Originally Posted by SpartanJT

By the way, fruit bats are the coolest:

yup-- I think the grey fox i saw at cranbrook was 5.5 lbs but had a 6'2" wingspan. that m-fer looked scaaary...but was actually very friendly, came when you called it by name, etc......it looked like a nerf football wearing an overcoat.

[SpartanJT]

Originally Posted by hausman

yup-- I think the grey fox i saw at cranbrook was 5.5 lbs but had a 6'2" wingspan. that m-fer looked scaaary...but was actually very friendly, came when you called it by name, etc......it looked like a nerf football wearing an overcoat.

I wish I would have known about that. My gf and I saw a bat exhibit in Chicago a few years back that was filled with fruit bats. Those things are so frickin' awesome to see in person. A picture just can't do it justice. They are like tiny foxes with wings. Very odd to see the head on that body.

[hausman]

Originally Posted by SpartanJT

I wish I would have known about that. My gf and I saw a bat exhibit in Chicago a few years back that was filled with fruit bats. Those things are so frickin' awesome to see in person. A picture just can't do it justice. They are like tiny foxes with wings. Very odd to see the head on that body.

..i know. they are actually cute as hell and make eye contact etc..as opposed to those little brown bat/ nasty lookin things in the midwest.

[MSUchick77]

Originally Posted by Blake Ezor

WTF were you talking about hockey? Sorry, but you had it coming.

Um, what do you mean by "sorry, but you had it coming." ???

I was walking out the door to head to the mailbox and a neighbor in my complex was walking their dog in front of my place so I went over to say hi. We started talking about hockey--where do you play, how long have you played, blah blah blah. I like hockey. It's a part of my life. Are you saying I was being punished by the bat for hockey speak?

Originally Posted by SpartanJT

That sounds like a sweet forum name...Dantonio's Grackle.

Originally Posted by hausman

gotta donate and register that, youre dead-on ! its mine!!!!!!!!!!!!1

That is a pretty good screen name. You guys can partially credit me with that one.

[EJE]

Originally Posted by SpartanJT

That sounds like a sweet forum name...Dantonio's Grackle.

Didn't JLS have a defensive playbook entitled My Grackle Learns to Tackle (or similar) by Dr Suess?