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 In Minnesota, Bats are an important part of our ecology. One Little Brown bat can eat as many as 500-600 mosquitoes an hour for a total of two to five thousand a night. A colony of bats can eat 100's of thousands of mosquitoes a night. Given the amount of mosquitoes we still have buzzing around us in the summer evenings, imagine the problem we would have if it weren't for our winged friends of the night. The method of exclusion that we use has been deemed bat friendly enough that the Dept. of Natural Resources has seen fit to use us as a referral to people who are having bat problems. For more information see: Minnesota DNR Link under the heading "Cleanup". Out of the seven species of bats that we have in Minnesota, three are tree dwellers and have little or no interaction with man. The other four species of bats found in Minnesota are cave dwellers, and unfortunately our homes appear to a bat as a large, convenient cave. The two species of bats that cause the majority of problems in Minnesota are the Large or Big Brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), and the Little Brown bat (Myotis lucifugus).
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