Bat Essay
By: Caden Zook

How many of you would like to sit out on your lawn on a summer night and not get eaten alive by mosquitoes and other bugs? Well, bats play a important role in our environment and will be make a positive impact in our community. Many of the current beliefs about bats are false and untrue. Also there are many benefits of having bats in our community. One way to help save bats is to build a easy and inexpensive bat house for shelter.

There are so many myths about bats but here are three. The first one is that vampire bats suck human blood but they actually lap up livestock’s blood. Alouther myth is that bats try to attack you but really they are eating bugs that are attracted to your body heat. The third and final myth is that bats have rabies they will attack you but bats rarely get rabies and if they have rabies they will not attack you unless you bother them.

There are so many benefits of bats but I will give you three. The first one is bats keep the insect population down so less pesticide is used on crops so wen we eat fruits and vegetables they will not have as much pesticide. Also bats pollinate flowers and other crops so they grow and so we can eat. Another benefit is there droppings (guano) is a organic fertilizer to grow crops.

There is this thing called bat houses and bat houses increase the places that bats can roost because humans are destroying bat habitats like caves and are cutting down trees. Bat houses can dearest the amount of bat in one area so white nose syndrome can not spread as fast. Also bat houses are easy and inexpensive to build.

I please urge you to care about bats and put up bat houses in our community and now that you see that the beliefs about are not true. Addishalny you can now understand how important bats are to our community. Finally, I have shown you how putting up bat houses in our community is good.