I love seeing the bats coming out at night in the summer; I can see them in the front clearing, swooping around after moths. I’ve got a bat house, but I think that it’s been vacant for years; I need to find a better way to attract them to my home.
Caves
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HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Knock one of the screens out of your attic and they’ll set up permanent residency in there. But, and this is a big but, they’ll shit all over the place, you’ll hear them crawling around, and many counties prevent you from doing anything to remove them or lock them out once they’re in.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Sadly: no attic. I need try making an attractive bat roost for them. I wonder how bats feel about cedar, since cedar is rot resistant?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
crickets? millipedes? isopods??? is this what living in the rest of the world is like?
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rest of the world compared to where? All those things can be found just about everywhere
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least). Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren’t frequently heated or where you store food and you’ll find them.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
we have spiders and harvestmen in abundance, but the rest is not something you will see in a house here.
maybe you’d see isopods in a garage because they caught a ride on something you brought in from the garden, but there’s not much for them to eat so you’d likely see them dead not long after…
I have never in my life heard of people having millipedes, slugs, beetles, or cockroaches in their house in sweden, that makes it sound like your homes are absolutely filthy for them to have stuff to eat. Also pretty sure the scandinavian peninsula just doesn’t have cockroaches, i have yet to see one in real life outside of captivity.
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Depends on where your house is, and if it’s urban or rural.
Speiser0@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
hperrin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am a cave-adapted organism.