# Your experience with bat houses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-with-bat-houses/652839>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 13, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-with-bat-houses/652839 "2013-03-13T18:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-with-bat-houses/652839/21 "2013-03-14T21:51:29Z")

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We’ve got an ancient barn that is host to dozens of bats every summer. I certainly hope they’re putting a dent in the mosquito population because they are definitely eating _something_. I have to put a tarp over my garden tractor to keep it from being buried in batshit.

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**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-with-bat-houses/652839/22 "2013-03-14T21:52:58Z")

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> [@Duckster](#):
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> If you have a bat cave, all power to you. We need bats more than ever, [before we lose them to white nose syndrome](http://whitenosesyndrome.org/).

Ok, I was going to make fun i.e. “The bats are doing coke!?” but that’s horrible.

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