Bats

Bat House - Go Green All Year By Hosting Bats
Benefits of Bats For Your Garden
Bat houses make an ideal home for bats -- a part of the balance of nature in the worldwide ecosystem. Including a bat house on your property encourages bat habitat, and one way you can help maintain beneficial bat populations. And, bats eat mosquitoes by the bucket load. Flying mosquito control. These shy and mysterious creatures just fit with the strange, mystifying nature of Halloween night. (And just so you know, there are no vampire bats in the United States or Canada.) A single bat of ...

The Bats that haunt Halloween
Why are Bats connected to Halloween?
Why, at Halloween, do we remember the bats? For thousands of years we have been fascinated with, and usually repelled by, these creatures of the night. Once bats were regarded as semi-divine, and appeared in ancient legends from the deep dark places of the earth. Now they feature in scary movies and Halloween is not Halloween without bats.

All About Bats
They Vant to Suck Your Blood!
One of the most popular icons of the contemporary Halloween celebration is the bat. Bats are likened to vampires, and are believed to aim for your neck and suck your blood. Long fangs and high shrieks, a swift breeze blowing by in the night, one only need to think of the flying rats and you begin to shudder. Bats are closely associated with vampires, who are said to be able to shapeshift into bats, fog, or wolves. Bats are also a symbol of ghosts, death, and disease. Among some Native Americ...