Quality Bat Houses

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Installing a bat house with and locating it appropriately is an easy way to bring bats in, and it’s a great way to encourage them to stay. 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 my friends to bat week here on the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:16.6	I am joined again by Dr. Merlin Tuttle, the father of modern bat conservation and the
0:21.5	founder of Merlin Tuttle's bat conservation and Teresa Nicta outreach and collection
0:25.8	manager at Merlin Tuttle's bat conservation.
0:28.4	So I think I've shared a little bit about this, I can tell you the story, it's really
0:33.5	me knowing nothing about bats and just getting a little hyped and we'll see what I did.
0:38.0	So I was reached out to it by a company, I think it's called the bat BNB.
0:43.8	Have you guys heard of that, that brought it before?
0:46.0	Well first of all, what do you think, is it a good one or not?
0:48.7	I helped them design their bat houses.
0:51.4	All right, I'm Merlin Tuttle, I'm already Merlin Tuttle approved, I mean this is a good
0:55.5	start for me.
0:56.5	What?
0:57.5	Here you certify houses that if you're going to buy a bat house, you ought to take a look
1:02.4	and see if it's been certified because yes, a lot of the bat houses are for sale, someone
1:09.8	that's just competing for who can sell the most for the least money, but many of those
1:16.0	aren't any good.
1:18.3	We certify good bat houses and if it's got our sale approval, then it meets certain
1:25.0	basic standards that you need to be aware of.
1:28.1	That BNB does.
1:29.1	Hey, there we go.
1:30.1	Okay, so I'm off to a good start, but this is where I think I probably have gone wrong.
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