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And now let's get back to the podcast.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to the show today.

And this week, it is Bat Week here on the Epic

Gardening podcast. We have Dr. Merlin Tuttle on the show, widely recognized as the father of

modern bat conservation. And he's an ecologist, a wildlife photographer, and a conservationist

who studied bats and champion their preservation for over 60 years and is the founder of Merlin Tuttle's

Bat Conservation and he's joined by Teresa Nicta who is the outreach and collection manager

at Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation so thank you both so much for coming on the show and I'm

really excited to talk about bats with you both thanks Kevin happy to hear you know, from the gardener's perspective, I'll confess here in San Diego at least, I think I maybe have seen a bat once or twice. I don't know if my eyes were deceiving me or not. And as we go on through the week, I'll share that I do have a bat house on the property, though I'm almost positive. I haven't set it up correctly.

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