Interesting Facts About Bats!

Our planet is populated with plenty of bizarre and astonishing creatures.

Did you know this about bats? The latest newsletter from Texas Gardener Seeds has these interesting facts about bats:

Bats consume 3,000 or more mosquitoes and other insects nightly.
Bats are responsible for up to 95% of the seed dispersal essential to the regeneration of forests.
Bats are less likely to be rabid than dogs are.

So put up a bat house to encourage the presence of these shy animals!

Here are three from the Bat Family:

So 2 out of 3 bats have a useful purpose!

If we could just train him to eat mosquitoes . . . or do anything useful.

Wait!

There is one bat — a most destructive variety of the Left-Winged Ding Bat.

H/t FOTM‘s maziel!

~Eowyn