Beavers back in London after 400-year absence

Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by smackeyacky on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:53PM (#30730121)

Come to Australia.

We have a colony of bats in our backyard at the moment. A very noisy colony of bats that leave at dusk and return at 4 in the morning, squabbling.

It was fun for the first month. Now we're hoping it will get too cold for them and they will move back to the coast for a while.

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by cmrdporcupine on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:46PM (#30730437)

Here I am in Ontario wishing I could come up with the magic formula to get a colony of bats to set up shop in the woods near my vineyard, so they can dine on the japanese beetles that decimate it every year.

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by wmil on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:36AM (#30732189)

Have you tried setting up bat boxes?

https://ontarionature.org/canadian-bat-box-project-blog/

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by bregma on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:38AM (#30732991)

We used to have a colony of bats at our house (rural eastern Ontario) but the P. destructans infection ("white nose syndrome") has wiped them out completely in most of eastern North America. Like wolves, bats are now extinct in this region with all the entailing ecological changes.

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by cmrdporcupine on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:51AM (#30733686)

HN needs a "sad" vote button :-(

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by smackeyacky on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:55AM (#30731491)

If there was a way to train them, ship them and make them stay you would be welcome to ours.

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Re:Beavers back in London after 400-year absence by yurishimo on Saturday March 19, 2022 @03:22AM (#30731876)

Austin Texas is home to a very large bat colony and watching them emerge from under a highway overpass is a common family activity during the summer.

https://www.austintexas.org/things-to-do/outdoors/bat-watchi...

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