{"id":2369,"date":"2010-07-12T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:31:45","slug":"battling-the-bats-to-a-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/12\/battling-the-bats-to-a-stand-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling the bats to a stand-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/ASPStories\/Story.asp?storyID=949579&amp;TextPage=2\">a piece on their website today<\/a> about an Upstate couple who paid $15,000 to rid their home of a bat infestation.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically &#8212; given that I&#8217;ve spent the last three years covering the deadly white nose syndrome bat epidemic &#8212; I too have an on-going and all-too-intimate relationship with these flying mice.<\/p>\n<p>They love the eaves and soffits of the old farmouse I own in the Champlain Valley.\u00a0 When we moved in, they had pretty much destroyed the attic.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the better part of two weeks last spring tearing out dung-and-urine soaked wood paneling and insulation.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>At times, it has seemed like every last remaining bat in the North Country wanted to live in my attic.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that we&#8217;ve fought the animals to a draw:\u00a0 only a few get into the attic proper every year; and it&#8217;s a rare occasion (usually caused by a window left open at dusk) when one zips inside the house.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the bats seem to have settled happily in the little bat houses we installed in nearby trees.<\/p>\n<p>And in the evening it&#8217;s kind of reassuring to see squadrons of the little critters zinging out into the yard, plunging and pirouetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union has a piece on their website today about an Upstate couple who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}