RANDOM PICTURE THREAD - Post ANY of your favorite pictures here to share with Tnet...

[Msbeepbeep]

We used to have one fly around here just after dark, they eat mosquitoes

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Upgraded Night Vision Monocular Digital Infrared Monocular Telescope for 100% Darkness with 8X Zoom - Grab it through Amazon!

[ARC]

We used to have one fly around here just after dark, they eat mosquitoes

Which alone should make us all like bats. heh

 

[wainzoid]

SF Giants pitcher Bumgarner, and his life size Lego statue

 

[ARC]

 

[Rodbuster209]

looks like man-caused holes, wonder what it was used for...?

Here in Northern California if you found these near water they were made for grinding acorns, the local Indian tribes of the area did this.

 

[Simon1]

We used to have one fly around here just after dark, they eat mosquitoes

But why do they need those "Fangs" to eat mosquitoes ? Mosquito meat is quite tender,
I did not realize that many variations of bats.

 

[ARC]

Mosquito meat is quite tender,

Simon you speak as if you have "first hand" knowledge of this "meat" heh...

I almost had mosquito soup once...
Only one bite away :P

 

[K1DDO1979]

RANDOM PICTURE THREAD - Post ANY of your favorite pictures here to share with...

Ok folks...
Here is the deal on these... I was looking up something and ran across a bat picture... one of these actually...
Anyway...
I was intrigued and did a few searches on bats and saved these to share with you...
I feel tht the bat is an overlooked creature that is not commonly seen or known...
they are a very strange creature...
And we never see them...
BUT...
They are all around us... everywhere. heh

View attachment 1343162View attachment 1343163View attachment 1343164View attachment 1343165View attachment 1343166View attachment 1343167View attachment 1343168View attachment 1343169View attachment 1343170View attachment 1343171View attachment 1343172View attachment 1343173View attachment 1343174View attachment 1343175View attachment 1343176View attachment 1343177View attachment 1343178View attachment 1343179View attachment 1343180View attachment 1343181

It's a shame around here in eastern Canada. A European fungi/bacteria got accidentally brought here and is wiping the bat population out. The bats over there have a natural defence but not our bats. I think bat researchers in Europe brought it back accidentally doing research here. They may even go extinct. It's called "white nose syndrome" and makes the bats come out of hibernation early and freeze or starve to death. Look it up!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

But why do they need those "Fangs" to eat mosquitoes ? Mosquito meat is quite tender,
I did not realize that many variations of bats.

Possibly protection, most carnivores have scarey teeth...except us....well there are some exceptions among us

 

[ARC]

Speaking of bats...

 

[BosnMate]

Simon you speak as if you have "first hand" knowledge of this "meat" heh...

I almost had mosquito soup once...
Only one bite away :P

I've been mosquito soup. I was in some lodge pole pines near Lemhi Pass, on the Montana side, and nature called. When I dropped my pants, the mosquito scout sent out word, "Hey, I gotta white tail here." Those buggers came boring in, and nobody ever got done doing their duty faster than I did that day.

 

[BosnMate]

Actly cow camp, eastern Oregon high desert.

 

[ARC]

 

[ARC]

 

[ARC]

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Hairless rabbit, poor thing is just embarrassed! Lol!

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

It's a shame around here in eastern Canada. A European fungi/bacteria got accidentally brought here and is wiping the bat population out. The bats over there have a natural defence but not our bats. I think bat researchers in Europe brought it back accidentally doing research here. They may even go extinct. It's called "white nose syndrome" and makes the bats come out of hibernation early and freeze or starve to death. Look it up!
View attachment 1343438

Yes, in hibernation sites, bats have died by the millions, back East.
Two reported dead bats in Washington state recently, and researchers are scrambling to find the population of bats,
that might be infected with this fungus. The spores get on their muzzles, ears, so the bat wakes up to scratch, and loses vital body fat to sustain them through a long winter sleep - they starve to death ! Stay tuned for more news on this problem....

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Speaking of bats...

View attachment 1343480

Ya, but does it eat mosquitoes?

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I've been mosquito soup. I was in some lodge pole pines near Lemhi Pass, on the Montana side, and nature called. When I dropped my pants, the mosquito scout sent out word, "Hey, I gotta white tail here." Those buggers came boring in, and nobody ever got done doing their duty faster than I did that day.

Florida has its share of "aggressive" little darts!
You are poke a dotted head to toe and in between when they get you!

 

[BosnMate]

Independence Rock, Wyoming. If the wagon train made Independence Rock by the 4th of July, they were on schedule.



The Sweet Water. The Oregon trail followed the Sweet Water to South Pass.


This bunny is doing fine, he is just lazy and laying in the shade up on the rock.