Just a few bats can eat thousands of night-flying insects in a single night, making them the perfect for reducing nasty pesticide use. By eating everything from crop-pest beetles to annoying mosquitoes, bats help keep your garden and your family safe. Simply just having bats nearby actually can drive away some insects!
"Artificial bat roosts" are man-made homes bats move into where they have lost natural habitat. Bats may be found in Bat Houses of course, but also Artificial Bark, Artificial Trees, Bridges, Culverts, Old Buildings, and even purposely built Artificial Caves!
BCM's founder John Chenger helped define all-wood bat houses during his time at the Pennsylvania Game Commission in the 1990's. While these early bat houses were quite successful, it became clear a lack of maintenance ultimately will render all wood-exterior bat houses unusable. A longer-lasting solution was sought. Experiments showed bats preferred wood on the inside of the roost, but the outside could be virtually anything. While we have seen bats move into our bat houses in as little as a few days, the reality is it may take -years- for bats to move in. Therefore it's critical your bat house last as long as possible; many all-wood bat houses are unusable before bats even occupy them, and maintaining (painting) a wooden bat house high off the ground regularly is a challenge. Our Colony-series bat houses and Super Rocket Roost come with an industry-first 10 year guarantee against splitting which typically renders other bat houses unusable.
