Are bats as terrifying a menace as some Hollywood filmmakers would have you believe? Absolutely not; after reading more about them below, you may even want them to call your place “home.”

Bats Eat Moths and Mosquitoes
Attracting bats to your off-grid garden or farm is an excellent way to get rid of insects. After all, an entire colony of bats can eat up to 100 tons of insects in one season. According to Bat Conservation International, bats save the United States about $3.7 billion in insecticides and reduced crop damage.
Bats Make Great Organic Fertilizer
Besides eating insects, bats also make an outstanding organic fertilizer. According to Fine Gardening:
“Bat guano typically contains 10 percent nitrogen, 3 percent phosphorus, and 1 percent potassium, and it has no fillers, as other types of fertilizer often do. This natural plant enhancer benefits flowers, ornamentals, vegetables, and herbs. It is also extremely long-lasting in most types of soil.”
How To Attract Bats To Your Garden
It’s easy to attract more bats to your garden or farm. Like all mammals, bats need food, water and a place to live. Since your garden already provides lots of insects as food for the bats, the only thing else that you need to attract bats is water and shelter.
They need a source of water that is easily accessible. Bats in the wild get their water from ponds, lakes or rivers. So having a pond near your garden is an excellent water source for bats. If you don’t have a pond and don’t want to make one, use a raised birdbath as a source of water instead.
Bats usually live in dark places like caves, trees and even church steeples. If you want to have bats help your off-grid farm or garden, installing a bat house is the best way.

It's absolutely astounding how much bats help in the way of insect control. If you had a large population living in your area (which you could help by building ample bat houses) you may never have to worry about insects getting into your crops or mosquitoes ruining your barbecues ever again.

Not only that, but your soil would also see some benefits, too. Maybe you could even set up a collection system underneath the bat houses to make fertilizer collection a part of your routine. The sky's the limit.

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