Biodiversity & Bats

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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With many species on the decline, maintaining biodiversity in native bat habitats is of the utmost importance. Connect With Merlin Tuttle: Dr. Merlin Tuttle is widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation; he is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats and championed their preservation for over 60 years; widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation. He's the founder of Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, home to his legacy and devoted to research, education, and the conservation of bats, where he is currently and solely active. Through MTBC he provides the world's finest bat photo gallery, the most up-to-date responses to exaggerated disease speculation, and it is the only place to access his more than 60 years of unique experience or support his continuing efforts. Joined by Teresa Nichta ("nikta"), Outreach and Collection Manager at Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation. Teresa manages Merlin’s extensive photographic collection as well as social media, video production, field planning, development, correspondence, and all things in between. Website Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Bat Week here on the Epic Gardening Podcast, my friends.
0:16.1	We are joined by Dr. Merlin Tuddle, widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation
0:21.6	and the founder of Merlin Tuddle's Bat Conservation, and Theresa Nicta, who is the outreach and
0:26.6	collection manager at Merlin Tuddle's Bat Conservation.
0:29.7	So yesterday, guys, we talked about bats as a way to control pests, I suppose, but really
0:35.5	more broadly about their role in the ecosystem, and something that I've learned a lot in the
0:40.2	garden is just building biodiversity builds the entire ecosystem, or at least the backyard
0:45.0	ecosystem, in my case.
0:47.1	And let's say you're listening and you really do want to attract bats.
0:53.1	What could you start to do to even give yourself a chance if you're just a, you know, backyard
0:58.6	grower?
0:59.6	Well, it certainly helps to protect native plants that's not necessarily going to sit well
1:07.8	with your neighbors, but the more native plants you have in your yard, the more you're contributing
1:14.9	to keeping nature healthy.
1:18.4	Merlin, when you won the award for the native plant garden in Austin, had you planted that
1:25.2	in an away that was, I don't know, say like an aesthetic native garden, or did you just
1:30.6	sort of plant it in a way that maybe neighbors would be a little upset by seeing?
1:35.8	Actually, I worked really hard at it.
1:39.0	I'm not going to claim that it was easy the way I did it, but I had things that flowered
1:45.8	in succession, and I would go in and trim one set while the next one was coming on.
1:54.1	I managed it, but it was all native plants, and it was beautiful.
1:59.1	So I got an award had I just let the wide variety of what people would consider weeds grow
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