Bat
Houses by
Chiroptera Cabin Company
Cabins and Condos for Chiroptera Cuties
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How to select your Chiroptera Cabin To help you decide which of our bat houses to purchase, consider three things in this order of importance. First....Color First, and most important, selecting the proper COLOR for your bat house. Selecting the proper color is not easy. You can not simply pick the color you like the best or the color that compliments the color of your house. That color may not be suitable for the bats in your geographic region! Why does color make a difference? The color of your house affects the temperature of the roosting chamber. Dark colors absorb more solar heat and there for make a warmer chamber. Light colors absorb less solar heat and make a cooler chamber. A difference of only a few degrees can be enough to convince bats to avoid your house. Use the table below as a general guide to help you select the proper color for the bat house you order. The table uses the Average Daytime High Temperature in July to determine suitable colors. To see samples of the colors check out the Color Chart.
Second...Venting Second, decide whether you should buy a vented model or an unvented model. Unvented models are designed for the colder regions of North America. An unvented house in black or a dark color would be suitable for the northern-most states, the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian Mountains areas, and most of Canada. Vented houses are designed for all region of North America except the coldest northern states and the mountain regions. Vented houses provide a wider variation of temperatures within the roosting chamber. The bats can find the temperature they like on any given day by moving to the top of the chambers on cooler days and down to the vented area on hot days. In many areas the best accommodations for the bats can be provided by putting up one vented and one unvented house, or two houses (both vented or both unvented) where one is a dark color and one is a medium. Third...Type of House Third, decide whether you should order a single chamber (Cabin), a 2-chamber cabin, or a four chamber house (Condo) and whether you want an economy model or a cedar model. See Cabin or Bat for more information. Single chamber cabins provide space for from 50 to 100 bats. A 2-Chamber cabin provides space for from 150 to 200 bats. Our four chamber condos provide space for as many as 300 bats and are designed to support a nursery colony of mothers and their pups. Whether you buy an economy house or a cedar house is a matter of personal choice. The bats will not care. Cedar houses look better (to people), so if your bat house will be in a highly visible location the cedar models may be more appropriate. What kind of bat habitat should you provide for these marvelous mammals, these chiroptera cuties, these winged wonders, our flying friends? The chart below will help you decided how many and what kind of bat house(s) to put up.
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