{"id":47108,"date":"2016-06-30T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=47108"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:10:23","slug":"bats-roosting-in-my-porch-25-the-bats-have-more-or-less-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2016\/06\/30\/bats-roosting-in-my-porch-25-the-bats-have-more-or-less-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bats roosting in my porch: 25. The bats have more or less gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than a year since I hung <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2015\/06\/12\/bats-roosting-in-my-porch-24-a-bag-of-red-chillies\/\">a bag of red chillies<\/a> in my porch to discourage Common Fruit Bats (<em>Cynopterus brachyotis<\/em>) from roosting.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoostingBats-porch-with-old-chillies.jpg\" alt=\"RoostingBats-porch with old chillies\" width=\"590\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoostingBats-porch-with-old-chillies.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoostingBats-porch-with-old-chillies-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Initially the bats came but left immediately. However, within a month less than a handfull returned and roosted, polluting the floor. By then the chillies had dried. So a fresh bag was hung that lasted less than 2 months before they dried up and became ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>A few bats did return on and off, so I gave up hanging new bags of chillies.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the bats disappeared altogether, except for a few strays now and then. My porch is generally free of roosting bats for about 9 months now. <\/p>\n<p>The image above shows the old bags of chilles left hanging from the rafters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YC Wee<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n11th June 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than a year since I hung a bag of red chillies in my porch to discourage Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting. Initially the bats came but left immediately. However, within a month less than a handfull returned and roosted, polluting the floor. By then the chillies had dried. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560,585],"tags":[437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}