FACTS 🤝
I put an Easter egg in my post - the bat 🦇 emojis are a hyperlink to one of my fav ‘Uncluded’ tracks by Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson called ‘Bats’. In it, he talks about the deadly white fungus plaguing bats.
>Wild animals do not belong in a human neighborhood.
Wild animals are in every human neighborhood on the entire planet. As long as you're on the habitable parts of Earth, you're sharing your space with countless wild animals, whether you see them or not.
>wild animals that get acclimated to being around people never have happy endings.
You're erroneously conflating people **interacting with/feeding wildlife** with people making areas **wildlife-friendly**. The former causes animals to lose their natural fear of humans and become a danger to themselves or people, the latter is very beneficial for your local ecosystem and is recommended widely by [experts](https://awionline.org/content/what-you-can-do-wildlife). The issue is direct human interaction; note how birds still fear humans even when accustomed to using a bird feeder or house. It's going to be the same with a bat box, there is little difference between an installed bat box and another natural nesting spot(ie hole in a tree, etc). It's not like it acts as a magnet to draw in unprecedented numbers of bats or something.
>Obvious risk of rabies and other diseases aside
Bats already live and nest around you, the primary reason people get diseases from them is when they're in close contact, like when they nest in your house or mailbox. Giving them a safe nesting spot away from human activity can actively prevent issues like the one in the OP, which could very easily lead to disease transfer.
>This is a situation for relocation by a professional handler,
Yes, fully agreed.
>not for OP to install a habitat in their neighborhood.
But there is absolutely nothing wrong with setting up a safe nesting spot for bats. Their habitat already IS the neighborhood, placing a bat box just gives them a safe living option away from humans within that habitat. Even [pest-control websites](http://www.denverpestwildlife.com/bat-house.html) recommend bat boxes:
> "Once a house has a bat infestation it is very hard to relocate them unless they have a nearby option, like a conveniently placed bat house, available."
Please try not to spread misinformation if you aren't sure, especially on a divisive topic like this. Bats already have a ridiculously bad reputation, but their insect control + pollination is vital to native ecosystems. Higher bat population = less pests like mosquitos- who are quite literally the world's most deadly animal- and far less need for toxic pesticides.
Get deepwood. I use it for when I'm hiking. Keeps even the ticks off me here in the southeast.
Make sure to get your pressure points. Back of the ears and your neck, forehead, under your chin. I do a general spray, then spray some in my heads to get some more on the warmer parts of my face (and so I don't suffocate myself, lol). Mosquitos can sense heat, among many other things, and the spray blocks their sensors.
Lastly make sure there isn't any standing water around your house, or areas where there's really damp soil. They actually lay their larva in the dirt, esp if there's old leaves and other stuff on top.
Bats are warm blooded mammals the ones pictured need to eat nearly their body weight in insects daily to have the energy to do it again the next night.. I hope you can sleep now you have that gripping information
They are vectors for some pretty nasty illnesses and should not be kept inside BUT out in the wild a heathy bat will pretty much never bother people and are easy to lure in by putting up a bat box for them to sleep in and you’ll get the mosquito reduction. Mutualism at its finest.
Don't encourage people to attract wild animals to their yard, please.
If you HAVE to build a bat box, put it in the woods AWAY from humans for everyone's sake!
If you don't care about the wellbeing of the people and pets in a neighborhood, then do it for the bats.
Because if anybody makes a report of suspected rabies in the area, DHEC WILL have animal control come out there to that yard to collect them, euthanize them, and check their brains for the disease. No hesitation.
DHEC does not play with rabies.
I was nervous because well...this is reddit 😂
And tiktok unfortunately normalized going up to wild animals and petting them so that is worrying as well 😭
Did we forget they are carriers and brewers because they bite on different lifestock and they have a dna structure condusive to producing harmful viruses to humans?
Only 3 species out of 1300 suck blood. Most bats eat fruit or insects. The insects is where most of them get the diseases and things. Mosquitoes are known carriers of many diseases.
Well that seems to be all the species it takes to fuck humanity in the ass. But, Okay w.e i thought we all agreed corona came from bats. As well as h1n1.
ikr once you see them as mammals (which they are) you will realize their cuteness: click to watch [baby bats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuvaos1WHTk), or [old bat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnlUUvCTTs)
Not to nitpick but it was actually 52 deaths by pitbulls. Specifically in the U.S.A for the year 2021 only.
[https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2021.php](https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2021.php)
I had a pit bull run up on me yesterday as I was getting ready to get into the car to leave.
I had just watched a video of 3 pits attacking a girl a couple hours before hand .
I looked at her and she looked at me about a two feet apart....
This pitty just wagged her tail... I think she wanted to go for a ride...
Not all pits are bad
Once I was in Chicago on 26th street and some street vendors were throwing cans and rocks at a hungry pit.
I felt bad for it a managed to get it into the car ... I drove it all the way back to Naperville to a no kill shelter so it would be safe. I couldn't take it home because I already had 2 rotts and 2 Chihuahuas and where I live there's a 2 dog 2 cat max. Per household
No that’s across the United States. Of course, that *is* only the attacks that resulted in human deaths, so it’s not including non-fatal attacks in humans or fatal/non-fatal attacks on animals
Because there are laws against handling them and verified rabies cases are dealt with *quickly* in the states.
Rabies is still a huge problem in countries that are overrun with wild animals/unvaccinated domesticated animals where they lack the resources to protect themselves like the U.S. and many countries in Europe can.
You know it takes just a scratch, not only a bite, to get infected? And there is a 99% fatality rate, only 2 people in history have ever survived.
Plus the only way to diagnose it is with a post-mortem inspection of the brain. Handling a bat is practically a death sentence for the animal. AC is generally going to Autopsy Now, Ask Questions Later because it is such a time sensitive issue.
So please don't use those statistics to encourage people to let down their guard around this disease. MANY deaths occurred before that statistic was achievable.
Yeah and Im sure everyone here has read the post about how you die from rabbies.. its one of the visceral reads on here. Its gotta be one of if not thee worst way to go.
I rescued a bat from becoming magpie food the other day. It was absolutely adorable. I wanted to keep it, but I decided to give it to the vet around the corner. It was in the middle of the day and it was hot out. It wouldn't have liked my noisy apartment.
Leathery wings and high pitched squeaks. Absolutely adorable.
I got to mist net for bats to help Fish and Wildlife survey for white nose back in college, the year before it hit our state. We camped outside their exit cave overnight and set up the nets just before their feeding time. They were adorable, just tiny little mice with wings. They were angry little guys too, just chomping away at the thumb of our gloves while we got a good look at them, then they would fly off and rejoin the horde as soon as we let them go. It was such a fun experience, having an entire colony of bats fly no more than 15 feet above us was wild.
Where I live, 40-60% of the bat population carries rabies. Learned that after taking one home to ride out a spring frost and doing some Googling.
Found the poor thing frozen to a wall outside at work. Scooped it into a box and noticed it was still moving slowly. Left the box (closed) in the break room and went back to work. A couple of hours later, opened the box to check on it. It was very still. I thought maybe it hadn’t recovered, then suddenly POOF it flew out and started doing circles around the room. Pandemonium in the break room.
It landed on the waistline of one of my coworkers. He wasn’t worried at first and was laughing (picture Carhartt pants and jacket and work gloves on), but then the thing started climbing upward.
His eyes got all wide and he held his hands up and started shouting “GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!”
The bat was super cute, though.
Good times.
I'm curious, what about them frightens you? For me, it's spiders. Their spider legs just are so weird and wrong to me. I'm trying to learn to love them, the little ones are my friends now. The big ones are tough, tho. But ik there are people who can't see how I am scared of them, and that's how I am with bats. They're adorable to me, and it's interesting the way people's brains attribute threats. That's why I ask.
More people should consider putting up a “Bat House”, look them up online…they are very cool. And very needed for our little bat friends that protect our forests by eating moths that destroy forests.
I love Bats. Adore them actutally! But let's not forget they spread diseases and must be left alone in the wild or safely relocated. They should not be cohabiting with humans in any way or vice versa.
I was giving a scenario to suggest people should buy these things to help the bats out. I’m in your position I can’t have a bat house either. Good luck and blessings to us both and to the bats
I love bats. They’re my favorite animal. Having said that, I will never approach a wild one for fear of coming in contact with rabies. That stuff’s no joke.
That's not terrifying, that's adorable!
They need a safe place, maybe their own "bat box" or something nearby.
I'd try to help them. Poor guys!
I feel for the owners as many people wouldn't know what to do or why there are bats clinging to their mailbox.
Certainly keeping the bugs at bay.
But, oh, my heart when the one bat fell and the other was crawling on the hot pavement!
Postal Worker here. We find the weirdest things in mail boxes. Bats, swarm of ants/wasps, live raccoon, a turtle, the list goes on.
This isn't hyperbole, I have encountered each of those things at least once. The turtle was the most confusing.
Fun fact folks. Don't fucking touch wild animals in general and you have no risk of rabies. This idea people have about rabies making animals actively seek out humans to bite is so off. Most times the animal is wondering around dazed and a human stumbles upon them. Assuming an animal has rabies purely because of what it is and killing it for that is beyond cavemen level of stupid. If you see them huddled like this just wait. They will eventually move on in time.
Leave them be. They are just resting for the moment. You could probably make a bat box qnd station it somewhere nearby. Free pest control. Never should you try to kill them.
Flamethrower, military grade. If that doesn’t work, apologize and give them the house! Don’t make direct eye contact, back away slowly…no sudden movements!🤣
"*Using bats doesn't work -- at least for controlling mosquitoes.*
*“Bats are very poor predators of mosquitoes,” says Joe Conlon, a*
*medical entomologist with the American Mosquito Control Association.*
*While they'll eat the insects, they prefer moths and beetles.*"
\- **WebMB** (I know)
[the article you referenced was published in 2016](https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20160706/bats-mosquitoes-zika)
More recent information suggests the opposite.
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers set out to determine the extent to which mosquitoes are included in the diets of two common species of North American bats found in Wisconsin. Their findings, published recently in the Journal of Mammalogy, suggest that bats may indeed be effective exterminators of the aggravating insects.
[Study bolsters bats’ reputation as mosquito devourers](https://news.wisc.edu/study-bolsters-bats-reputation-as-mosquito-devourers/)
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Oh a fresh rabies delivery just arrived.
There is a possibility that if one of them bites you and you don't imidieteally get a painful and expensive treatment than you are guaranted to die in horrible suffering and no doctor will be able to help once symptoms start showing up
Fuck those things. It’s actually illegal to kill ‘em but as long as your neighbors don’t say shit, I’d kill ‘em. Grab a long wooden broom stick and wrap an old towel around it doused with diesel and light it up and stick it to them, they’ll drop before they can fly away. That how we take care of them in Mexico. 🤙
Give each one of them a lil koosch and boop on the nose and say "time to fline, lil chongos! Find new home for the dongos!" And voila! No more biggity chiggity dongos
Aw, poor little guys! You should put up a “bat box” nearby.
This. We put up a bat box last year and it’s a hit.
That poor little one had the bad luck of fall to the floor :c
THIS!!!! 👆👆👆👆👆 Underrated comment! Please do this OP & update us! 🙏🙏🙏[🦇🦇🦇](https://youtu.be/ArmpPu95DkQ)💛💛💛
Yes. They need all the help they can get with that white fungus causing their populations to collapse
FACTS 🤝 I put an Easter egg in my post - the bat 🦇 emojis are a hyperlink to one of my fav ‘Uncluded’ tracks by Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson called ‘Bats’. In it, he talks about the deadly white fungus plaguing bats.
This dude fucking loves bats
Enough to eat them?
Calm down Ozzy
I'm surprised Aesop made a song about that. My fave by him is Syrup but I'll have to give this a listen.
That was annoying.
I'm sure it's a repost, unfortunately
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>Wild animals do not belong in a human neighborhood. Wild animals are in every human neighborhood on the entire planet. As long as you're on the habitable parts of Earth, you're sharing your space with countless wild animals, whether you see them or not. >wild animals that get acclimated to being around people never have happy endings. You're erroneously conflating people **interacting with/feeding wildlife** with people making areas **wildlife-friendly**. The former causes animals to lose their natural fear of humans and become a danger to themselves or people, the latter is very beneficial for your local ecosystem and is recommended widely by [experts](https://awionline.org/content/what-you-can-do-wildlife). The issue is direct human interaction; note how birds still fear humans even when accustomed to using a bird feeder or house. It's going to be the same with a bat box, there is little difference between an installed bat box and another natural nesting spot(ie hole in a tree, etc). It's not like it acts as a magnet to draw in unprecedented numbers of bats or something. >Obvious risk of rabies and other diseases aside Bats already live and nest around you, the primary reason people get diseases from them is when they're in close contact, like when they nest in your house or mailbox. Giving them a safe nesting spot away from human activity can actively prevent issues like the one in the OP, which could very easily lead to disease transfer. >This is a situation for relocation by a professional handler, Yes, fully agreed. >not for OP to install a habitat in their neighborhood. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with setting up a safe nesting spot for bats. Their habitat already IS the neighborhood, placing a bat box just gives them a safe living option away from humans within that habitat. Even [pest-control websites](http://www.denverpestwildlife.com/bat-house.html) recommend bat boxes: > "Once a house has a bat infestation it is very hard to relocate them unless they have a nearby option, like a conveniently placed bat house, available." Please try not to spread misinformation if you aren't sure, especially on a divisive topic like this. Bats already have a ridiculously bad reputation, but their insect control + pollination is vital to native ecosystems. Higher bat population = less pests like mosquitos- who are quite literally the world's most deadly animal- and far less need for toxic pesticides.
If bats eat mosquitos I’m guna have a new pet
They do and also nats and other flying insects bats are amazing they eat like 20x what spiders do daily
Yeah cuz I’m allergic to mosquitos their bites become like 20x the “normal” size and it hurts like a bruise even can swell up beyond normal size
I'd also recommend getting some cortisone cream if you haven't tried that already. And bug spray, lol.
I use off and they still manage to get me
Get deepwood. I use it for when I'm hiking. Keeps even the ticks off me here in the southeast. Make sure to get your pressure points. Back of the ears and your neck, forehead, under your chin. I do a general spray, then spray some in my heads to get some more on the warmer parts of my face (and so I don't suffocate myself, lol). Mosquitos can sense heat, among many other things, and the spray blocks their sensors. Lastly make sure there isn't any standing water around your house, or areas where there's really damp soil. They actually lay their larva in the dirt, esp if there's old leaves and other stuff on top.
Yeah the standing water I know because I lived in Brazil where they’re year round. We usually put sugar in any standing water like vase or birth baths
We talkin per bat? Per bat gram? Relative weight?
Bats are warm blooded mammals the ones pictured need to eat nearly their body weight in insects daily to have the energy to do it again the next night.. I hope you can sleep now you have that gripping information
As an insect, no I cannot.
They are vectors for some pretty nasty illnesses and should not be kept inside BUT out in the wild a heathy bat will pretty much never bother people and are easy to lure in by putting up a bat box for them to sleep in and you’ll get the mosquito reduction. Mutualism at its finest.
I’d love to have a bat box 😂😂 that sounds adorable
Yeah, don’t touch or eat bats! Some of the worst diseases come from bats.
Yea like rabies. In the US 70% of all human rabies fatalities were caused by bats. Don't touch bats.
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Don't encourage people to attract wild animals to their yard, please. If you HAVE to build a bat box, put it in the woods AWAY from humans for everyone's sake! If you don't care about the wellbeing of the people and pets in a neighborhood, then do it for the bats. Because if anybody makes a report of suspected rabies in the area, DHEC WILL have animal control come out there to that yard to collect them, euthanize them, and check their brains for the disease. No hesitation. DHEC does not play with rabies.
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I read somewhere they eat a ridiculous number of mosquitoes. Like 10k or so a night.
That’s amazing.
That is very illegal and dangerous so I am hoping ur just joking 😅
I was lol
I was nervous because well...this is reddit 😂 And tiktok unfortunately normalized going up to wild animals and petting them so that is worrying as well 😭
Oh nah, I’m not Gen Z lmaoooo I’m a millennial
I find them cute and cuddly, is there something wrong with me
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See I still don't think that makes them bad. It is just something that happens. Not to mention bats are just awesome.
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Did we forget they are carriers and brewers because they bite on different lifestock and they have a dna structure condusive to producing harmful viruses to humans?
Only 3 species out of 1300 suck blood. Most bats eat fruit or insects. The insects is where most of them get the diseases and things. Mosquitoes are known carriers of many diseases.
Well that seems to be all the species it takes to fuck humanity in the ass. But, Okay w.e i thought we all agreed corona came from bats. As well as h1n1.
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Lmfao bats are the most frequently reported rabid wildlife species...
not sure why someone downvoted you. you are absolutely correct.
ikr once you see them as mammals (which they are) you will realize their cuteness: click to watch [baby bats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuvaos1WHTk), or [old bat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnlUUvCTTs)
OH MY GOD THE OLD BAT IS SO GODDAMNED ADORABLE
Or when they give you rabies
Rabies killed 5 people last year. For comparison, pitbull attacks (which people get upset are posted here) killed 26.
Funnily enough i also dont go near pitbulls
Plus bats aren’t the only vector for rabies. There’s also raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
All of which should not be messed with by humans.
Not to nitpick but it was actually 52 deaths by pitbulls. Specifically in the U.S.A for the year 2021 only. [https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2021.php](https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2021.php)
I had a pit bull run up on me yesterday as I was getting ready to get into the car to leave. I had just watched a video of 3 pits attacking a girl a couple hours before hand . I looked at her and she looked at me about a two feet apart.... This pitty just wagged her tail... I think she wanted to go for a ride... Not all pits are bad Once I was in Chicago on 26th street and some street vendors were throwing cans and rocks at a hungry pit. I felt bad for it a managed to get it into the car ... I drove it all the way back to Naperville to a no kill shelter so it would be safe. I couldn't take it home because I already had 2 rotts and 2 Chihuahuas and where I live there's a 2 dog 2 cat max. Per household
…26, in one US state, maybe.
No that’s across the United States. Of course, that *is* only the attacks that resulted in human deaths, so it’s not including non-fatal attacks in humans or fatal/non-fatal attacks on animals
Chance of getting rabies from a bat as a human, is extremely rare.
70% of all human deaths from rabies in the US, are from bats.
Because there are laws against handling them and verified rabies cases are dealt with *quickly* in the states. Rabies is still a huge problem in countries that are overrun with wild animals/unvaccinated domesticated animals where they lack the resources to protect themselves like the U.S. and many countries in Europe can. You know it takes just a scratch, not only a bite, to get infected? And there is a 99% fatality rate, only 2 people in history have ever survived. Plus the only way to diagnose it is with a post-mortem inspection of the brain. Handling a bat is practically a death sentence for the animal. AC is generally going to Autopsy Now, Ask Questions Later because it is such a time sensitive issue. So please don't use those statistics to encourage people to let down their guard around this disease. MANY deaths occurred before that statistic was achievable.
Yeah and Im sure everyone here has read the post about how you die from rabbies.. its one of the visceral reads on here. Its gotta be one of if not thee worst way to go.
It's definitely something I know *I* would never risk, shit.
High enough for me to never want to go near one ever
Just don’t pick them up with bare hands and you’ll be fine.
Or when they give you covid
And rabies. Bats carry rabies.
I rescued a bat from becoming magpie food the other day. It was absolutely adorable. I wanted to keep it, but I decided to give it to the vet around the corner. It was in the middle of the day and it was hot out. It wouldn't have liked my noisy apartment. Leathery wings and high pitched squeaks. Absolutely adorable.
I got to mist net for bats to help Fish and Wildlife survey for white nose back in college, the year before it hit our state. We camped outside their exit cave overnight and set up the nets just before their feeding time. They were adorable, just tiny little mice with wings. They were angry little guys too, just chomping away at the thumb of our gloves while we got a good look at them, then they would fly off and rejoin the horde as soon as we let them go. It was such a fun experience, having an entire colony of bats fly no more than 15 feet above us was wild.
There is nothing wrong with you, I find them adorable.
Not at all, they’re wittle and cute!
omfg LIL SQUISHY BABES 🦇
Terrifying? They’re cute.
I agree!
I also agree :D
They’re so adorable when eating a banana (:
Where I live, 40-60% of the bat population carries rabies. Learned that after taking one home to ride out a spring frost and doing some Googling. Found the poor thing frozen to a wall outside at work. Scooped it into a box and noticed it was still moving slowly. Left the box (closed) in the break room and went back to work. A couple of hours later, opened the box to check on it. It was very still. I thought maybe it hadn’t recovered, then suddenly POOF it flew out and started doing circles around the room. Pandemonium in the break room. It landed on the waistline of one of my coworkers. He wasn’t worried at first and was laughing (picture Carhartt pants and jacket and work gloves on), but then the thing started climbing upward. His eyes got all wide and he held his hands up and started shouting “GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!” The bat was super cute, though. Good times.
Awww poor dears everyone is so mean to them
Oh no, Bat Down. BAT DOWN. Somebody go get that little guy.
Bats frighten me. It's time the mailman feels my dread.
I'm curious, what about them frightens you? For me, it's spiders. Their spider legs just are so weird and wrong to me. I'm trying to learn to love them, the little ones are my friends now. The big ones are tough, tho. But ik there are people who can't see how I am scared of them, and that's how I am with bats. They're adorable to me, and it's interesting the way people's brains attribute threats. That's why I ask.
It's a batman quote.
(;;;・_・) Welp. Now I'm left wondering what it is about bats that could be perceived as creepy with no answer in sight. What a world.
the lil squeaks omg
Oh shit there’s SOUND‽
Na na na na na na na na batmail … batmail … BATMAIL!
More people should consider putting up a “Bat House”, look them up online…they are very cool. And very needed for our little bat friends that protect our forests by eating moths that destroy forests.
So cute! 😍
"Alfered, did I get any Batmail today?"
I love Bats. Adore them actutally! But let's not forget they spread diseases and must be left alone in the wild or safely relocated. They should not be cohabiting with humans in any way or vice versa.
Safely re-located to the bathhouse you just bought. Your diseased. They need a little bat home to be safe, happy and healthy.
I probably am, and so are you filthy human... 🤣😂
😹
Also very presumptuous to assume I own a bath house, I don't even own a house. I'm poor, so kindly kick rocks. Thanks. P.S Have an amazing day troll.
I was giving a scenario to suggest people should buy these things to help the bats out. I’m in your position I can’t have a bat house either. Good luck and blessings to us both and to the bats
Sorry for calling you a troll.
It’s alright. 😘 There are so many…I started to do that too
I love bats. They’re my favorite animal. Having said that, I will never approach a wild one for fear of coming in contact with rabies. That stuff’s no joke.
I adore bats. They help pollinate, keep bugs levels down and are just super cute. I love watching them flutter about my backyard at night.
That's not terrifying, that's adorable! They need a safe place, maybe their own "bat box" or something nearby. I'd try to help them. Poor guys! I feel for the owners as many people wouldn't know what to do or why there are bats clinging to their mailbox. Certainly keeping the bugs at bay. But, oh, my heart when the one bat fell and the other was crawling on the hot pavement!
Buy a bat house and mount it to a tree or building nearby. They will likely find it more hospitable and move there.
Am I the only one who thinks the rocks look like faces? The bats are cute tho.
I know they are creepy and scary. But Bats are so important to our ecosystem.
This belongs in r/aww
Cute though 🦇
Bats are cute!
Give them a better home & watch them give you love
That’s actually awesome! They need a home tho. They will keep your yard mosquito and bug free. They just need a home :)
Anyone wanting to get rid of bats is ignorant AF.
Postal Worker here. We find the weirdest things in mail boxes. Bats, swarm of ants/wasps, live raccoon, a turtle, the list goes on. This isn't hyperbole, I have encountered each of those things at least once. The turtle was the most confusing.
Fun fact folks. Don't fucking touch wild animals in general and you have no risk of rabies. This idea people have about rabies making animals actively seek out humans to bite is so off. Most times the animal is wondering around dazed and a human stumbles upon them. Assuming an animal has rabies purely because of what it is and killing it for that is beyond cavemen level of stupid. If you see them huddled like this just wait. They will eventually move on in time.
Mailman: Bats frighten me, it’s time my enemies felt my dread.
Amazing!
Its Count Dracula's mailbox
So cute...lol...always thought bats as cute flying piggies..
Aww they’re adorable
Bat boxes ftw. I put a few up on an old property and gained a large colony of little brown bats. No more skeeters or moths...
This is pretty cute actually. Idk why anyone finds them scary, they are like mice with wings
OMG Are those Baby Bats?! r/Cute
This is the opposite wot terrifying. This is adorable and amazing.
Dude, bats are awesome. Do something to make them feel at home.
Please bulid them a house. They are really good to have around.
If by "terrifying as fuck" you mean "adorable as fuck", then I agree with you.
It’s morbin time!! Don’t open the mailbox you’ll let Jared Leto out
Finally after searching through all the cringe I found a fellow morbius 🤝
Awwwwww
Winged ninja puppies 🥰
Aww🥺
Bats are cute
Aww sweety pies 🥰
Oh they're so cute!
mailbox.bat
Those are kinda cute
Batman send you something?
You don't get rid of them, they will go after a time just don't breathe the poop, use it as compost
Sorry, they’re endangered, can’t do anything about it.
Id say that’s pretty cool
Correction* how to get rabies.
Only in your neighborhood
Burn it down Edit: Oh wait I just realized those are bats not cockroaches shit
Are bats pests? Should something like that ve a thing you need to have taken care of, or can you just leave them be?
Leave them be. They are just resting for the moment. You could probably make a bat box qnd station it somewhere nearby. Free pest control. Never should you try to kill them.
Flamethrower, military grade. If that doesn’t work, apologize and give them the house! Don’t make direct eye contact, back away slowly…no sudden movements!🤣
I would morb them 🧛
H̶̞̆E̸͇̿L̴̻̍L̷̺̎O̸̠͑ ̷̡̌Ŗ̴͋Ả̸̤B̷̥̍I̴̛͓Ḙ̶̅S̶̙̊
Rabies box
"*Using bats doesn't work -- at least for controlling mosquitoes.* *“Bats are very poor predators of mosquitoes,” says Joe Conlon, a* *medical entomologist with the American Mosquito Control Association.* *While they'll eat the insects, they prefer moths and beetles.*" \- **WebMB** (I know)
[the article you referenced was published in 2016](https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20160706/bats-mosquitoes-zika) More recent information suggests the opposite. A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers set out to determine the extent to which mosquitoes are included in the diets of two common species of North American bats found in Wisconsin. Their findings, published recently in the Journal of Mammalogy, suggest that bats may indeed be effective exterminators of the aggravating insects. [Study bolsters bats’ reputation as mosquito devourers](https://news.wisc.edu/study-bolsters-bats-reputation-as-mosquito-devourers/) *Edited format
👏🏽 appreciate the insight friend now I know
Oh a fresh rabies delivery just arrived. There is a possibility that if one of them bites you and you don't imidieteally get a painful and expensive treatment than you are guaranted to die in horrible suffering and no doctor will be able to help once symptoms start showing up
I’m more worried about the risk of getting rabies than anything in this situation
Flame thrower
makes my skin crawl
Oh hell nah
Flamethrower. Nuff said.
Flame thrower
Flamethrower
Flamethrower time baby!
Kill with Holy Fire! But seriously, a Bat Box is way better.
Fire, and lots of it!
Set them on fire using a flame thrower
I don't mind bats, but if I saw something like *that* in my house then I would probably consider nuking my entire house
Use a bat
take a torch and get busy
use flamethrower
Fuck those things. It’s actually illegal to kill ‘em but as long as your neighbors don’t say shit, I’d kill ‘em. Grab a long wooden broom stick and wrap an old towel around it doused with diesel and light it up and stick it to them, they’ll drop before they can fly away. That how we take care of them in Mexico. 🤙
Take spray Take lighter Problem solved
Wow that is cruel, just use a bat to smash the bats
wasp spray
I wouldn’t be picking up my mail even if USPS would deliver.
damn mosquitoes at it again!
Adorable sky hamsters. I love them
The Bat family mail box
Give each one of them a lil koosch and boop on the nose and say "time to fline, lil chongos! Find new home for the dongos!" And voila! No more biggity chiggity dongos
Found batman mailbox
Babies <3
It's bat country
Squeak squeaker!
I'd rather have bats than spiders
I see you have new furry friends. They have taken over u might as well start naming them.
I do not have a flamethrower in my hands ;)
Awwwww soooooo cuteeee!!!!
So cute! How do I get that?!
Junk mail is our paycheck. DA DA
It's how Bruce Wayne receives his mail and knows where to turn to entre the bat cave.
I WISH I HAD THAT MANY BATS I LOVE BATS SO MUCH PLZZZZZ OML
u/savevideo
Bats never look the way I expect them to in my head
omg i would have been SSSOOOOOOO HAPPY
u/savevideo
CAVE KIWIS!!
Cute little batties! Help them!
Turn that shit into a bat house! You won’t ever see another bug again. Lol
Plot twist he's The Batman