For my personal project, I am studying bat houses and their benefits for both bats and humans. I have been working at the OBC Bat Zone for several years and I have come to believe that bats are very important to the environment. With environment as my AOI, I will research and show how bats are vital to green efforts such as organic farming and control of insects. A single big brown bat, a creature smaller than your palm, can eat between 600 and 1000 mosquito sized insects insects every hour for up to 6 hours every night. That's almost 6,000 bugs per bat per night. Not only do they get rid of the mosquitoes, bats eat many other types of insects such as crop bugs which would multiply immensely if left unchecked. This makes them vital to organic farmers who rely on bats destroy the insects instead of using pesticides.
My goal for this project is to build three bat houses and hang them up, ideally with at least one at the IA. In order to accomplish this, I will need to build the bat houses before the end of October so that I can hang them before it gets cold after Novemer. With that done, I will work of the research and presentation parts of the personal project until its due date at the end of the semester
If I have managed to create and hang the bat houses, having found people who are sympathetic to bats or having converted people to see them in a better light, I will consider this a success since I will not be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the houses in any location until the spring.
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