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Originally Posted by Irish mist
An old-timer up here told me that in the 1950s the sky at dusk around the lake use to be black with bats.....hundreds & hundreds of thousands of them. Now of course you see no such thing....and that's not good. We need them to eat up those bugs  |
I remember when I was young staying at my great Aunt Annie's place in Moultonborough we'd see quite a few bats flying at dusk, now maybe 2 or 3. The white nose bat disease is a real threat to bats. With the loss of the bats there will be a much higher mosquito population. I hate bats but know I have to live with them as part of the ecological balance. Bats are dying by the hundreds and that's scary. Same with the bees as someone mentioned. I don't know of many crops that don't need bees to pollinate them, so a solution to the bee die off needs to be found too or we will all be suffering from high costs of food (or hunger if a solution isn't found and there aren't enough bees to raise crops.)