Eagle Scout Project Bat Boxes Traditional Cache
Eagle Scout Project Bat Boxes
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This cache WAS an ammo box. Now open the lid of the bat box that is not mounted on a tree at this time. You can even see how it is constructed. It has a log, at the moment needs a pen, Mark Twain NF pin for
the FTF and bat travel bug and swag. A quick png with parking close
and access from Hwy 67. It also has information about bats and how
many insects they eat.
***Permission has been granted from the property owners- St. Andrew
Lutheran Church.***
This cache is placed to highlight an Eagle Scout Project, that
built and installed 16 Large Nursery Bat Boxes at local parks and
recreation fields in the city of Poplar Bluff. Each of these bat
boxes can hold up to 500 bats at maximum capacity. The total number
of hours for this project was 357 and the total cost was $733, but
many of the supplies were donated. The rest of the funds were
granted by the U.S. Forest Service and the Poplar Bluff Park
Department. Most bats are valuable allies, well worth protecting.
Worldwide, they are primary predators of vast numbers of insect
pests that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually
and spread human disease. In the United States, little brown bats
often eat mosquitoes and catch up to 1,200 tiny insects in an hour.
An average-sized colony of big brown bats can eat enough cucumber
beetles to protect farmers from ten millions of beetle's rootworm
larva each summer. Bats play key roles in keeping a wide variety of
insect populations in balance.
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