I had hanging outside under my porch.
Felt something move when I put it on.
Freaked me OUT!.
First thought was to smash it but I didn't. Once I regained my composer, I petted him and put him in the sun to warm up.

He hung there quite awhile and started slowly going up. Hid behing a deer antler till dark.
Was gone in the morning.

Bats are super rad!!!! My husband loves em they’re like his favorite animal. We saw Malayan Flying Foxes at the Pittsburgh Aviary. He wanted to take one home

Night roost.

They don't fly around all night long. Fly out at dusk fill their belly, go roost for a bit to digest their meal then another meal before dawn before heading back to the day roost.

Admit it...you screamed like a little girl!

Moosetrot

Nearly all of em are rabies vectors.

If ya start foaming at the mouth and acting crazing...and you haven't been drinking liquor......call 911....lol

It'll probably be too late to save ya, but at least the bat will be OK.

cute little guy. thanks for not killing it. had 2 in a cage years back, and the kids enjoyed feeding them butterflies. we "rescued" them from a county courthouse, where they wouldve surely been killed. kept them a short time, then released where we knew others frequented.

Bite his head off for dispatch.

We get calls all the time for them. Heading out next week to get a bunch out of an attic, seal it up ext. a bee keepers smoke can will get them flying if you can’t locate them.

wws

Yep, be nice to our friendly mosquito eaters.

Come on Sharon I'm waiting !

COOL
ALWAYS CAUGHT THEM WHEN TRYING TO BAND WOODCOCK AFTER DARK
Do you know what species it is ?
does not appear to be silvery as in Hoary
Keen's or Little Brown bat

Had something smack my wing vent hard then hit the side of my headon my way to work several years ago. Had a few scratches figured it was a large bug went into work and forgot about it. In the morning I opened the door getting back in the truck at the gas station and there was a dead bat between the door and seat.

I have had one get in the house 3 times in the last 7 years. I just get a shirt, towel or whatever is handy and toss it up as the bar is flying by. It gets hung up in it then I release it outside. Neat little things.

I'd have smashed that thing flat if I felt & found it roosting in my clothing !!!

w

Don't they carry rabies.

they can.......
They say most people dont even know thew were bit...

And it could not happen to a better person.....

I bet Guss staers prowling of a night now.

All the pictures I posted were little browns. That is the majority of what I see, did have some big browns last year but no pictures, they left thru a cone.

wws

Well I didnt even see this til I opened it. I thought it was on someone wearing a hoodie....lol

I like bats.

Of the twenty-four human rabies cases from bats from 1993 to 2000, seventeen cases (71%) were a rabies variant associated with the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) while one case (4%) was associated with the rabies variant found in big brown bat.

The bat was (as far as I know) was a LBB.
common here in the summer.
I wish them no harm.