So I am sitting at the bar....

[Raven]

Originally Posted by fishbones

i wonder how it got in your house....?
in the first place....

I heard they can eat thousands of mosquitos a night. Good luck with your daughter. I hope she wasn't bitten or scratched by the bat.[/quote]

well they eat their own weight every night... and now adays mosquitos are known to carry many diseases .....so to be perfectly honest i trust a healthy bat over a mosquito any day

[gone fishin]

They can enter various ways. One is if the flashing around your chimney is loose, they squeeze in and roost on the rafters. Another is the end gables venting system. When installing the rake boards a space is left and they can work inside through cracks. I have had them in my office in the basement. They came in around the chinimey and fell down to the basement. It feels weired when you are working at a drawing board and one whizzes by your neck. I usually shut off the lights and open the door. I go outside and watch for them to find their way out. If that doesn't work a tennis raquet is the weapon of choice. They have trouble avoiding it as their echo penetrates and they fly right into it. Nasty looking critters!

[basswipe]

One of the biggest wive's tails going is that many bats carry rabies.The fact is that very few if any bats carries rabies.Why?They fly.When is the last time you saw a rabid animal jump up snag a bat,bite it and then the bat survives and flies away.The only bat of the several hundred species that has contact with other mammals is the vampire and it doesn't exist in the northern hemisphere.

Bats are probably the most beneficial of all mammals on the planet.Try finding a mosquito in southern TX when the freetails are there,which is all Summer long.

[Raven]

you da man !!!