Want to attract and protect bats in your garden? Discover how this natural bat house provides a safe shelter.
Read moreThe bat is a nocturnal mammal and is a protected species and suffers from the reduction of its habitat. Installing a bat box will help them shelter from bad weather and offers them a quiet place to rest and reproduce. Having bats in your garden will be very useful because they feed on all kinds of nocturnal insects that birds cannot catch during the day and will be a benefit for you and your garden.
The shelter has horizontal grooves to allow bats to land, cling, and move around inside the shelter. It has a zinc roof to protect it from water infiltration and prevent the wood from rotting.
The bat is an insectivore and a nocturnal hunter, so it feeds on all the insects that birds cannot catch during the day, many of which are harmful to the garden. It can therefore catch cutworms (nocturnal moths responsible for the cutworm and other pests), processionary moths (responsible for processionary caterpillars) and many others! It is also very fond of mosquitoes.
Face the box south, south-east all year round; it is recommended to place a second one facing north to offer a roost sheltered from the heat during the warm season. Place it at a height between 2.5 and 5 metres.
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