Bat Houses: More Effective Than Pesticides?

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Bat Houses: More Effective Than Pesticides?

Dr. Merlin Tuttle is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats and championed their preservation for over 60 years. He's the founder of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation, home to his legacy and devoted to research, education and the conservation of bats.

This clip was taken from the JRE episode #1932 w/Merlin Tuttle

Host: Joe Rogan @joerogan

Producer: Jamie Vernon @jamievernon

Guest: Merlin Tuttle

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[Notsram]

Not the Bat man we asked for, but definitely the Bat man we need.

[OkieDokieSmokie]

These episodes are so wholesome. No politics, no agenda, just some old fellar tellin us about his love of bats. 10/10

[Justintime]

I live right next to a lake and I've had 3 bat houses for like 5 years now. These little guys destroy all, mosquitos, flies and nats. I really don't have any problems around the house with flying insects any more.

[shred]

This is when Joe shines, finding an expert who is passionate and wants to tell their story.

[michaelstopher]

THIS is the kind of person that NEEDS more attention. Passionate about solving problems in a caring and reasonable way. Too many have slipped away.

[inharmonywithearth]

In Austin Texas has the largest urban bat colony in the world all because of the grooves under one cement bridge. The grooves are the perfect width to make the bats comfortable. It was not deliberately done. Its a tourist attraction and people sit on the park lawn beside the bridge every evening watching the bats pour out in clouds. They watch live bands play music there by the river and its mosquito free. They need to build all bridges with these little grooves underneath them.

[Debbie]

As a vet who works with our Native American bats, I’ve known Merlin for a great many years. We had a difference of opinion on crop techniques, but I’m very glad to see he’s still an iconic figure in the bat world and still fighting the good fight for our favorite animal. ❤

[AutoCrete]

A nursing brown bat can can eat up to 1100 mosquitoes per night. We used to have quite the mosquito problem around here. About 10 years ago I built several bat boxes handing a few out to neighbors. It took about 3 years until it got to the point where mosquitoes are actually scarce around here. Bat boxes just plain old work!

[MarSchlosser]

Around 1915, a San Antonio Texas doctor, Dr. Charles A. Campbell, got the county to build houses, towers, for bats. He hypothesized that malaria always comes during mosquito season, and made his case. The county built the houses and discovered it had to be near water, and so on. Moral of the story, east Texas soon had hundreds of bat houses that looked like a spooky Victorian house tower and very few new cases of malaria.

[inigosebastiangaray]

The wisdom in this man is absolutely remarkable. He showed it when speaking about how he approached his conservation activities.

[tinymotogarage]

Aside from the bat subject, this guy has life lessons in learning and dealing with people that could power the next 500 years. He need to write the book "Win Friend's Not Battles". That's Carnegie level stuff right there.

[FranciscoHernandez-pgfk]

This gentleman is so amazing, great work he's doing for conservation by teaching, love it

[dcavic]

I grew up 10 Miles from Boston Massachusetts next to a swamp. The misquitoes were in the millions if not billions and bearly any bats, maybe 1 or 2 on a good night. I now live in centeral Massachusetts and cleared out some land for a homestead, next to a swamp. Which I was so dreading from the past, with misquitoes. So I put up 3 bat houses, over 2 acres to help the local bat population from the trees that were knocked down. Its been amazing maybe 1 misquieto I hear a night, not bitten but I hear a night compares the the tens of thousands growing up. Roughly 15-20 bats flying getting all them suckers. The Orchard, garden and wild medow (native plants non cultivated) all thrive on the balance of nature.

[JGUNWRD]

You know the guest is REALLY good when Joe gets quiet. He’s really good at letting the good ones roll and calling out the ones who are half-baked. No pun intended.

[Maartwo]

These are my favorite episodes where Joe finds a knowledgeable expert in an obscure topic and they proceed to have a magnetic discussion for like 2 hours.

[Tradhunter]

I already learned something listening to this man . I also changed my thoughts on bats.

[LionelSJohnson]

We have a bat house on my farm near the house and they are so good at keeping the mosquitos down. 90% of the day we don't see any at all (mosquitos). It's fantastic.

[kennithchapman]

So many people could learn from this man's psychology. He's calm and uses common sense very well.

[billblackledge]

“Win friends, not battles.” - Pure Gold! 👍