Microbat Workshop with Tony Hodge

11th August 2019

What an incredible workshop! Our recent Eco Action Microbat workshop with bat carer and zoologist Tony Hodge was a night of bat education and fun! We saw cute bats up close and helped our special guests to make bat boxes for their backyards.

Did you know that we are living beside microbats all around the Perth area? Many people are surprised to discover how common microbats are because they mostly go undetected by humans due to their nocturnal lifestyle, minuscule size, and echolocation calls that are outside of our human audible frequency. Microbats are insectivorous and provide us with the vital ecosystem service of keeping mosquito numbers down. In fact, one microbat can consume approximately 1,200 mosquitoes and other small insects in one night alone!

69020469_1086133361581750_1958221206817603584_n
69210935_732497420539905_722892435285344256_n
68271700_491000521663732_7137184302382448640_n
69361429_522479801625778_1993603405100089344_n
69281778_616445868882255_9066132128802013184_n

Previous
Next