Bats

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:08 pm

Die Fledermaus (and Arthur)

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:11 pm

anniemcu wrote:The ones flying around your house are doing you a very big favor... they eat loads of mosquitos and other buggy things.!

No, around as in IN my house. I don't mind if they fly around the outside perimeter. I just don't really relish them flying around the INSIDE perimeter

The last one we had made it's presence known in my 15 year old daughter's bedroom. She came racing down the stairs in tears, telling me that there was a huge MOTH flying around her room.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:18 pm

izzarina wrote:
anniemcu wrote:The ones flying around your house are doing you a very big favor... they eat loads of mosquitos and other buggy things.!
No, around as in IN my house. I don't mind if they fly around the outside perimeter. I just don't really relish them flying around the INSIDE perimeter The last one we had made it's presence known in my 15 year old daughter's bedroom. She came racing down the stairs in tears, telling me that there was a huge MOTH flying around her room.

Ooooooooooooooohhh... ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... a different story altogether... I had a run in with one inside - neither one of us really enjoyed it.

I went up to bed and, as was my habit, tucked my arm under the pillow... I swore the biggerst darned cricket in the universe started chirping angrily at me... and upon moving the pillow found the poor little ol bat, just as surprised and uncomfortable as I was... crikey but that was a heart thumper!

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:21 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:I once killed a bat. I've felt terrible about it every since. I won't go into details but my primordial fears overtook me. It was in our apartment when my oldest daughter was a little baby.

Poor bat.

Don't feel too bad, I think any mother with an infant would be quick to dispatch any wild animal hanging around. And as rare as it is, bats *do* sometimes carry rabies, so why risk it?

I like bats as long as they are *outdoors*.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:11 pm

We are getting our very own STATE BAT!! here in good old Virginny!

And it was proposed by a representative from my neck of the woods

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe ... 253D442368

Here's an better picture of our official state flying mammal-

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe ... earbat.htm

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:29 pm

Arthur, Die Fledermaus... THE TICK!!!

Die Fledermaus: "Two words Tick. Chick Magnet."

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:47 am

TelegramSam wrote:Don't feel too bad, I think any mother..

I don't know about mothers but as a father I was simply, irrationally repulsed.

Is it my Avatar?

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:38 am

Great photo Gary! Bats are way cool. I have had bat houses for many years, and it is always a great source of entertainment watching them leave in the evening on their quest to rid the neighborhood of 'skeeters' and the like.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:57 am

aderyn_du wrote:Arthur, Die Fledermaus... THE TICK!!!

Die Fledermaus: "Two words Tick. Chick Magnet."

I loved that cartoon. And the comic books. And the live-action TV show. There's just something about it... "SPOON!"

I wish they'd release the cartoon on DVD.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:22 am

http://southwest.fws.gov/refuges/oklaho ... dlife.html

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:33 pm

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:03 pm

Our company office used to be in a big ole' house in Frederick Md.'s historic district. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney lived there once. We'd get bats inside every couple of months and (if they were still alive) we'd take them gently outside. They were almost certainly living in the attic.

One of the programmers started keeping a "sighting report," with descriptions that included "dead, very dead" and "alive and angry." I don't think Kevin ever recovered from discovering a bat hanging from the back of his office chair while he was seated in it.

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