MSU Bat House......

[leeinator]

Bring in 4 or 5 big Owls. Then we'll have no more bat problems, but only a hoot of great football season.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

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.

When I was there, our bat problems were at Dudy Noble

 

[The Peeper]

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.

I was only in Suttle 1 semester but don't remember them being a problem. The basement was where the laundry room was and I did go in there but don't remember it being nasty. The stairs were on the ends of each side and were open so don't think they would have been there.

 

[She Mate Me]

If you don't know anything about the history of humans using guano (bat and seabird sheet), it's a worthy rabbit hole. There were literally violent conflicts over access to guano deposits. Incredible fertilizer in the days before we could chemicalize everything...

Guano - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[FrontRangeDawg]

They do produce a prodigious amount of guano. I can't imagine what 10k bats will do to Dudy Noble in a few months.

That's tough; they're incredible animals that are getting wiped out in lots of places with that white nose fungus. It's hit NM and CO hard in the last few years.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

How are they a nuisance? Not arguing. The only thing I know about them is that they eat mosquitoes

Droppings

 

[She Mate Me]

Droppings

Yeah, it's great stuff if it's in the right place and harvested sustainably.

The right place ain't a sports stadium where humans are walking in it.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Austin says just put em under a bridge.

You should see the bats that are in Round Rock. They took over a bridge and have become a huge colony.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Yeah, it's great stuff if it's in the right place and harvested sustainably.

The right place ain't a sports stadium where humans are walking in it.

or your back porch...

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Bats are cool. Wish we had more near my house, but not in it. Mosquitos are not cool.

Bat house and a little ditch with swamp milkweed and black-eyed susans. Fewer mosquitos. Works wonders.

 

[Choctaw Dawg]

Fans warned of bats considered a ‘high risk for rabies’ in Davis Wade Stadium

Before the game Saturday afternoon in Starkville, fans in the stadium were warned of bats that are considered a “high risk for rabies.”

www.wlbt.com

 

[Dawgg]

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

Honestly, they should just leave them there and let them have their nightly migration. Might be the most intimidating thing happening at the stadium.

Of course, that would require us having night games.

 

[Dawgg]

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.

It’s better just to not wonder how sisters catch things in college.

 

[Pilgrimdawg]

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

Not that it matters but I am pretty sure that those are Starlings, not black birds. Same problem either way.