"Yard Guy" wrote in message ...
Chas Hurst wrote:

In other words, while I can believe that bats can detect, and eat
a lot of flying insects (moths, etc) I simply don't believe that
mosquitoes form any significant portion of their diet.

That's just plain ignorance. Bats eat lots of mosquitoes, and it
doesn't matter what portion of the bats diet mosquitoes make.

A bat that eats one mosquito per night would not it a good reason to try
to attract bats to my back yard.

And you didn't respond to my comment that I question if a mosquito is
large enough to be detectible to the echo-location mechanism that bats
use to locate and consume their flying food items at night.

"A single bat can swallow 600 to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour, depending on the
bat species. An individual bat feeds for an hour or so at dusk and retreats
to its home site to rest. A second feeding may take place near dawn. With
about 100 small brown bats in a typical single colony, a lot of mosquitoes
can disappear in a single night. "



http://news.ufl.edu/2004/10/27/bats-n-skeeters/

Moron.