Bat House in Your Soul
Hyattsville residents are generally up on Hyattsville, but none of us like the mosquitos. Mosquitos aren’t just annoying, they are also big-time disease vectors.
When I lived in Tampa, the problem was addressed by periodically spraying the heck out of everything. I remember hearing the helicopters and running to my car before I was lacquered with sticky Malathion.
Is there a more environmentalsome answer?
When I bike home from work at dusk, I often am delighted to see bats swoop down alongside me on the Northwest Branch Trail to gobble up bugs with admirable precision.
Could our bat friends provide the solution to the mosquito menace? I think it’s time to install a bat house and see.
I just ordered one on eBay… I’ll keep you posted.
In different bat-related matters, the editors of tmbw.net, the otherwise cool They Might Be Giants wiki, remain unpersuaded by my arguments that the lyrics of The Deranged Millionaire refer not to “The Genome of Bats”, but rather to a baseball team called The Genova Bats. Starting my own They Might Be Giants wiki seemed excessive, so I decided to post here, instead.