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Trick or…bat trivia? Have fun bats throughout Halloween season

As Halloween approaches, pictures of scary bats turn into commonplace. This makes it the right time of 12 months to counter bat myths and do one thing to assist bats, by participating in Worldwide Bat Week (Oct. 24 to 31).

Bat Week is all about appreciating these superb animals and their advantages, which in Canada centre round consuming bugs. In different components of the globe additionally they pollinate flowers, and unfold seeds and vitamins.

This Bat Week, take into account educating your youngsters, grandkids, or pals in regards to the great lives of bats. How about getting ready bat trivia questions for them? Take them to your native library and signal out bat books, or try the Thompson-Nicola Regional Library’s “Bat Packs”, obtainable at each department (together with the Cellular Library).

“In B.C., there are no less than 15 species of bats, and they’re all main predators of bugs, together with moths, beetles, mosquitoes, and flies,” says Martin Kruus, the Cariboo regional coordinator for the BC Neighborhood Bat Program.

“A single bat can eat as much as its physique weight in bugs every night time. Consuming all of those bugs helps shield our meals crops and forests from insect pests, saving farmers and forest managers billions of {dollars} every year.”

Irrespective of the place you reside, it’s nearly sure that there are bats dwelling close to you.

“Offering protected and wholesome habitat for bats is vital, as over half the species on this province are thought of in danger,” says Kruus. “For the reason that fungus that causes White-nose Syndrome [WNS] was detected in Grand Forks final 12 months, bat conservation is extra essential than ever. We anticipate to see impacts in B.C. within the close to future.”

White Nostril Syndrome is a deadly fungal illness that has killed tens of millions of bats. It doesn’t have an effect on individuals or pets.

“To assist us with WNS surveillance, report useless bats or sightings of winter bat exercise to our web site,” says Kruus, who additionally cautions individuals by no means to the touch a dwell or useless bat.

B.C. residents might help bats by following bat-friendly group pointers, together with defending bat habitat, planting a bat-friendly backyard, stopping bats from drowning in swimming pools or rain barrels, holding cats indoors, and far more.

Bat Week marks the time of 12 months when bats disappear from our neighbourhoods, to not be seen once more till the return of hotter climate in spring. As insect-eaters, our B.C. bats should go away their summer time roost websites and migrate or hibernate to outlive the winter. Their absence implies that that is the time of 12 months to do dwelling renovations that you’ve got delayed because of the presence of bats. You possibly can clear out and restore a bat field, or do bat-friendly exclusion work, with out disturbing or injuring bats.

In partnership with the B.C. Authorities, and funded by the Habitat Conservation Belief Basis, Forest Enhancement Society of BC, and Habitat Stewardship Program, the BC Neighborhood Bat Program supplies data and promotes native stewardship and citizen science. Anybody can report winter bat sightings, or discover out extra in regards to the BC Neighborhood Bat Program and choices for serving to native bat populations, at www.bcbats.ca. It’s also possible to electronic mail Kruus at martinkruus@shaw.ca.

ConservationScience


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