Do bats fly south for the winter???

I know in the summertime, I always see the 'lil buggars skittering around the sky looking for skeeters and moths and such...

But now, though it's still relatively warm, I don't see the friendly night warriors anymore. Where'd they go???

Do bats migrate?

Hmmmmmmm......

Now that is a good one. Some species do, some don't. Most North American bats hibernate I believe. Don't forget, the places they like (caves) stay pretty much the same temp all year round.

No they go to the Bat cave for the winter to hibernate

Since it got warm again, I'm seeing bats in the evening. It is my understanding that the bats we are used to seeing do hibernate.

They hang out behind our shutters on our house, we have been hearing them in the early evening screeching for a while and then flying out this past week...

We have to be careful removing them for painting......usually find 1 or 2.

Little brown bats hibernate in clusters during the winter months, though little is known on hibernation locations in New Hampshire. Caves or mines are preferred but large tree cavities with favorable microclimates may be used. In order to minimize evaporative losses the humidity in these hibernation areas must be high, preferably over 90%. A constant temperature of 40 degrees F is desirable for hibernation.

I was unsure also so I looked it up.

I see a fat one, year round at the inlaws house!

BK

gambler wrote:Little brown bats hibernate in clusters during the winter months, though little is known on hibernation locations in New Hampshire. Caves or mines are preferred but large tree cavities with favorable microclimates may be used. In order to minimize evaporative losses the humidity in these hibernation areas must be high, preferably over 90%. A constant temperature of 40 degrees F is desirable for hibernation.

I was unsure also so I looked it up.

Strange.....until I got rid of my shutters 2 years back, we had them fly'n mice living there all year.

BK, I've one of those as well, (not fat) but Batty as hell.

BK & ED A

I had one of those to...but she has since joined the choir invisible...

I have one of those too, and she migrated south to Florida.

Just for the winter?

Just for the winter for the first couple of years then permanently.
I guess the gods have shined on me at least once!

i have a barn with about 1,000 or so small brown and big brown bats. the majority of them go south. very few will stay and the ones that do are the small brown. there cool , but they crap all over anything in the middle bay. so you can't put anything thing there. great fertilizer though.

ken wrote:great fertilizer though.

I heard that bat guano stuff is pricey.

"Shining out like a shaft of gold, when all around is dark" It was one of Wilde's. (more Monty Python)