MSU Bat House......
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This isn't your typical bat house. It appears to be about 12'x12' if not bigger and on 6x6 stilts and the bats fly in from underneath. Supposedly there's 10s of thousands of them in Davis Wade roosting every night. They are going to try and trap and relocate them. Where is Blackjack Lake? It says on the edge of campus but only lakes I know of are Eckies Pond and Chadwick Lake
Bats are cool. Wish we had more near my house, but not in it. Mosquitos are not cool.
Good luck with that. Hope it works, but unless Davis Wade is out of room, why would they leave? And Davis Wade ain’t gonna be crowded anytime soon
How are they a nuisance? Not arguing. The only thing I know about them is that they eat mosquitoes
When there is 10,000 of them on own structure and you can’t kill them that’s a nuisance
You won't kill them with that attitude.
They’ll leave if we can get the cups back to smelling as bad as they used to
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me where the bathhouse is. Sounds like a party.
MSU found a solution to that. Do we need the same solution for Davis Wade?
I hear Dorman is infested with bats.... damn near overrun!
Their **** is very potent smelling so if they live in your overhangs or near your house you are going to smell it and have to deal with all that buildup or bugs that host on then - basically the same as having a rodent infestation with smellier crap. Other than that there's nothing to really worry about with them. Great to have on your property just not too close to where you lay your head.
It will never be done in time.
I thought we are a college about animals and nature and we don't know how to deal with them?
In 79 or 80 we had a horrible problem with blackbirds one winter. You couldn't be at Dudy Noble at dusk because hundred thousands of these birds would spend the night in the trees where the Palmeiro Center is now. A wide line of these birds would fly in for 15 or 20 minutes before dark. It was like a long thunder cloud rolling in each night. We would get bombed with bird turds if practice went long. They even condemned the little forest as a human health hazard. Only had the issue the one year.
In 79 or 80 we had a horrible problem with blackbirds one winter. You couldn't be at Dudy Noble at dusk because hundred thousands of these birds would spend the night in the trees where the Palmeiro Center is now. A wide line of these birds would fly in for 15 or 20 minutes before dark. It was like a long thunder cloud rolling in each night. We would get bombed with bird turds if practice went long. They even condemned the little forest as a human health hazard. Only had the issue the one year.
Explains why the cups stink after all these years...guanno
The best $3000 I ever spent was getting bats removed from my attic. The bat guy (bat man?) said they would probably just move into my neighbors attic. I was like 
You can catch them at night with a fly rod. Let’s just say someone I know removed a bunch of bats over a few weeks that way.
That time period there was a nationwide issue. The issue is the blackbirds gather and roost in those cedars and poop all over the place nightly. The poop hits the ground and gets in the soil. I think it's a 2 year incubation after that for a disease called histoplasmosis that attacks your lungs and can be fatal. There were thousands of people in Indianapolis during that time that caught it. Tupelo always had issues and spent a bunch of $$ trying to scare the birds out of the cedars along the Trace. Same issue with bats except they don't congregate as much
We set one as a kid. They are SUPER finicky creatures. The entrance must face a specific direction, out of the wind, and receive a certain amount of sunlight. It takes about 2 years before they use it, but when they start, they will fill it up.
I was wondering the same thing as I've never heard of Blackjack Lake. I assume this is it, due to it's location on university property off of Blackjack Rd.
U. of Florida has built several of these large bat houses and they have created a bit of an evening spectacle. It's not as dramatic as that bridge in Austin, TX, but still significant.
Flarda has a bathouse on campus. Sounds a lot like the one they are suggesting here.
Lol...I see my customers delayed my hitting enter on this post before it got mentioned. I'm practically a nazi now.
Lol...I see my customers delayed my hitting enter on this post before it got mentioned. I'm practically a nazi now.
I remember one of my older sisters getting histoplasmosis somehow back during that time - maybe Sr in HS or FR yr at State, don’t remember that but I was outside ALL the time when 7-8 yrs old and I never got it.
Same here.
Problem is, in the house is where they like to go. And hard to get them out. I had them behind a shutter and I could not get the damned things to leave. Finally had to put up netting and spray with critter ridder.
The amount of shlt they can produce is mind blowing.
We should have constructed the bat house directly above the opposing sideline.
All these talk about Bats…I don’t think I even remember seeing one ever on campus. Not saying they aren’t there, but just an interesting observation. I remember people talking about Suttle having a problem in the basement? Or stairs? Never saw one and I walked by Suttle when living by Critz.