Do you have TOO MANY MOSQUITOS outside your house? Maybe you just have too few bats. A single brown bat can eat upwards of 1000 mosquitos… AN HOUR.
In honor of bats – and the wacky folks who love them – we humbly submit to you 27 FREE bat house plans in the hopes that you can dramatically reduce the mosquito population that’s taken up residence around your picnic table.
>> 3 Designs For the Bat Fanatics ONLY
>> 2 Rocket Box Bat House Designs
>> 2 Interspecies Housing Plans: Birds + Bats
>> 1 HOA-Positive Bat House Plan
>> 6 Bat Family Friendly: Multi-Chambered Bat Nursery Plans
>> 13 Basic Bat Houses for the Modestly Batty
>> 2 Bat House FAQ’s + 1 Bat House Making Video
>> 3 Designs For the Bat Fanatics ONLY
Warning – these bat houses are not for the faint of heart, slim of skill or in any way squeamish about bats.
1) Bat Condo for 7000 Bats
More pics of the most righteous bat house known to man >>
2) Metal Shell (Aluminum) 14-Chamber Bat Box Capacity: ~600 Bats
3) Successful Pallid Bat House Design in California
More about the Pallid Bat.
>> 2 Rocket Box Bat House Designs
Who knew that bat houses could look so… AWESOME. These free-standing bat houses will look great in your back yard, especially around the 4th of July.
>> 2 Interspecies Housing Plans: Birds + Bats
Bats and birds. Who knew they could live together in harmony? For those seeking to promote better interspecies relations, check out the following bat + bird houses.
2) Holloway Wood Duck/Bat House Combo
>> 1 HOA-Positive Bat House Plan
Try this bat house if you want to reduce mosquitos but there’s a HOA breathing down your neck. We’ve heard reports that this design originated in Bruce Wayne’s neighborhood.
>> 6 Bat Family Friendly: Multi-Chambered Bat Nursery Plans
Help out bats in the family way. These multi-chambered bat nursery plans should really get your bat population booming!
1) the 3 in 1 plan set: Small Bat Box, Small Maternity Colony Box, Large Maternity Colony Box
2) Four-Chamber Bat Nursery House
3) Triple-chambered Bat House Plans
>> 13 Basic Bat Houses for the Modestly Batty
3 chambers? Rocket Boxes? Bird + bat houses? Come on, some people just want the plain old vanilla bat house! Well, here ya go. 13 of them to choose from!
3) Bat House Plan and Assembly Directions
5) BBC Bat Box
8) Single-chamber Bat House (wall mounted)
10) Assembly of Beginner’s Bat House
12) Bat House Construction Project
13) Install a Bat House for Natural Pest Control
>> 2 Bat House FAQ’s + 1 Bat House Making Video
1) Bat House Design Considerations
2) Common Questions and answers About Bat Houses
3) Video: How to Build a Bat House the Gardenfork Way
Another Rocket Box bat house:
http://www.biology.eku.edu/bats/rocketbox.html
video walk through on bat house building:
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_1435_build-bat-house.html
Bat House News:
UF bat house collapses; 200,000 left homeless
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1190676.html
Now THAT was a big bat house…