#bat roost

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Well, that's one way to get the HOA.

[farmobileo3]

Did you know I’m a community scientist partnered with the Natural History Museum? Tonight we did a bat roost by the San Gabriel river in El Monte. My job was to record the audio of the bats leaving the roost to hunt for food. Bats play a major role in our ecosystem. There are about 14 different types of bats around la county and three different type at this particular location.

[rentistheft]

[onceuponatown]

Photograph shows a giant bat roost in San Antonio, Texas with a sign: "A home for bats and belongs to the City of San Antonio. Bats are one of man's best friends, because they eat mosquitoes and mosquitoes cause chills, fevers and other diseases”. 

The man standing on roost is Dr. Charles Augustus Rosenheimer Campbell (1865-1931) who advocated for the roost to be built.

Between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

[watershedplus]

In the 1900's Dr. Charles Campbell, from San Antonio, Texas, advocated that bats could control mosquito populations, and therefore malaria, with less expense and human effort than other methods. He came up with a pioneering design for a Bat Roost equipped with "all the conveniences any little bat heart could possibly desire". The first one was built in spring 1911 next to Mitchell's Lake, ten miles south of San Antonio. Malaria cases in the neighborhood decreased sharply and the Campbell tower was followed by more than a dozen more built to the same design, one as far afield as Italy. They were used until the 1950's. From Venue and here