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| About the Author Mildura 22nd February 2012 5:36pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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snottiegobble says... Mark, I know you mean micro-bats & they eat thousands of mozzies every evening. You can make your own bat roosts to hang up out of pine & thin plywood. They are usually oblong shaped with inner partitions arranged kinda like frames in a bee box, but further apart,& they have shadecloth stuck on their sides for the bats to grip. of course the roosts are hung or fastened upside down in a sheltered spot. | About the Author snottiegobble Bunno & Busso ( smack in the middle) 22nd February 2012 6:18pm #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Speedy says... yeah, along the road reserve out front of my place there are lots of mallee trees growing there. I've gone along and cleaned out some of the fallen hollow branches and lodged them in the trees. All in the hope that it might encourage bats to take up residence in some of them. I was checking one out last year that I'd put up a few months previous and counted 12bats fly out of it. when placing bat boxes, put them where they'll get full sun, the bats love warmth. | About the Author Speedy Nthn Vic. 22nd February 2012 7:20pm #UserID: 2305 Posts: 250 View All Speedy's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author snottiegobble Bunno & Busso ( smack in the middle) 22nd February 2012 7:43pm #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Brisbane 22nd February 2012 8:05pm #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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brad says... i presume all states have similar info to http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,16/Itemid,/ presuming perth info is valid elsewhere,joe is excellent http://gobatty.com.au | About the Author Brad2 gooseberry hill 22nd February 2012 9:29pm #UserID: 2323 Posts: 762 View All Brad2's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Julie 23rd February 2012 8:19pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Mike says... BJ you might need a diadem horseshoe bat to take down a fruit moth but unfortunately they don't extend quite to your place.The freetail bats of several types that are common in roofs in northern australia do a good job with mozzies.The micro bats would probably help control small moth pests in places away from the cities and only a few types could be lured in to roosts. | About the Author Cairns 24th February 2012 11:38pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |