🦇 Conservation in Action! Bat Boxes with Donna Mullen Bat boxes are a simple but powerful way to help bats 🖤. Thoughtfully designed boxes can provide safe roosting spots and shelter from harsh weather, whether they’re placed in gardens, woodlands, on tree trunks, or even on buildings and walls. Donna shares one of her most successful bat boxes, now home to a thriving group of Soprano Pipistrelles. The Schwegler 1FF Bat Box has a great track record everywhere it’s installed - from gardens and f

Happy Bat Appreciation Week! Installing a bat box is a simple and effective way to help bats. It gives these amazing animals a safe place to roost and care for their young. Bats play a vital role in Oregon’s ecosystems. A single little brown bat can eat more than 1,200 mosquitos, or 50%–100% of their body weight, in a single night! That’s a lot less mosquitos that could bite you, your pets or livestock. As nature’s pest control, bats also benefit farming by decreasing crop damage that insects ca