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Bats roosting in my porch: 24. A bag of red chillies
So far, all attempts at discouraging Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting in my porch failed. I tried spotlights and hung CDs LINK 1 and LINK 2 but without success. One outcome of...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 25. The bats have more or less gone
It has been more than a year since I hung a bag of red chillies in my porch to discourage Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting. Initially the bats came but left immediately. However,...
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BABY BAT SUCKLING & TEAT TRANSFER
“One morning in early May 2016, I was admiring a cosy colony of Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) and observing their dedicated maternal care (above). “One of the mothers had a well-grown baby...
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Bat proofing my house porch
Following the success of discouraging the Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting by hanging a bag of fresh red chillies nearby: HERE and HERE, Dr Jean Ho decided to do the same in her...
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Common Fruit Bat roosting in a tree
(video grab) This juvenile Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) arrived one morning to roost under my porch but was discouraged from doing so by a bag of dried red chillies (Capsicum annuum) LINK....
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Whiskered Myotis bat roosting inside rolled up leaf of banana plant
This Whiskered Myotis (Myotis muricola) bat (above) was found roosting inside the central rolled up leaf of my banana plant (Musa ‘Pisang Raja’) yesterday afternoon. The young banana plant was barely...
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Return of the Whiskered myotis
An earlier post documented a Whiskered Myotis Bat (Myotis muricola) roosting inside the rolled-up central leaf of my banana plant (Musa “Pisang Raja”). Since then I have been keeping an eye of newly...
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Common Fruit Bat feeding on longan
Joe Tham‘s image of a bat targeting the fruits of Longan (Dimocarpus longan) adds to the former’s food list. Wildlife consultant Subaraj Rajathurai has this to say: “Based on the appearance and...
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Attracting bats to your garden…
Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) are usually found during the day roosting in caves, on the under-surface of flyovers, under the eaves of houses, on branches of trees, etc. With the coming of...
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Barn Owl controlling Fruit Bats roosting on eaves of houses
I was recently informed by Prof. Tan Teck Koon that the eaves of his house were once infested with roosting Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis). The colony numbered about 15 bats and there was...
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