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Bats in the DR
Yup bats in our area too, they have knocked one of our Chi's in the pool a few times swooping down. Scare me too, not a fan!
we had a big ass colony of them outside of our apartment when we lived on the malecon. some lived inside as well (very high ceilings). i kinda like them. quiet fellows. here i see them in the garden on most nights. i think they are very cute. they do not seem to be a source of rabies here.
e z to see them at dusk go to the street and throw up in the air a key chain or something small , throw it near the overhead wires...dont worry no at the wires just in the vicinity...low voltage and you should see things (flying things) swoop in and away....remember not at night time....
When I lived in Perla Marina, we had some bats that liked certain areas of our porch. Bat droppings every morning. Ewwww.
On the other hand, they eat mosquitos.
Lindsey
On the other hand, they eat mosquitos.
Lindsey
Good to have around. There is a disease affecting them in US and I think in Europe too.
I built a device to listen for them; this inspires me to get that out again.
I built a device to listen for them; this inspires me to get that out again.
My next door neighbor has a huge mango tree that the bats in our area love. They eat the fruit and spit out the pits onto my steps and walkway. My landlord got tired of the mess and installed some motion activated lights to discourage them from dropping their garbage outside my front door.
some of them have BIG wing spans..... BIG, like 9-10-11 inches
they can look like birds skimming the pool at night.
they can look like birds skimming the pool at night.
Definitely bats in Jarabacoa. We had several dead ones show up over night at the school, and I've seen them in my mango tree on the finca.
We had bats skim our pool out in juan dolio. Had to have had a wingspan of close to 3 feet. My wife says they like smoke especially from the funk. Probably why they liked our pool so much. So yes. Lots of bats in the DR.