(This article has a lot of dense pictures of bats, please read with caution)
(This article has a lot of dense pictures of bats, please read with caution)
(This article has a lot of dense pictures of bats, please read with caution)
In the past two days, the students of the University of Georgia in the United States have just returned to campus, and they find that their dormitories have actually become a "vampire castle":
There are dozens of bats crawling on the walls...
(Bat climbs wall)
There was a huge brown bat by the door...
When I opened the wardrobe, I could see a bunch of small bats in the black pressure to keep warm...
(Bats in the closet)
There are also a few lying at the entrance of the escape passage of the dormitory building...
(Bat at the entrance of the escape tunnel)
Or hang upside down on a branch outside the window and watch secretly...
(Bat on a branch outside the window)
In every corner of the student dormitory, there are these chilling little animals gathering...
Even if the light gathers, some bats are still waiting for an opportunity to attack people.
One female student confessed that she was so frightened that she fled back to her dorm room and locked herself in the hallway when she was frantically pounced on by several bats.
(Schoolgirl attacked by a bat)
In the past two weeks, a large number of bats have poured into the student dormitory buildings of the University of Georgia, and the school dormitory management does not dare to act rashly because they do not know whether there are any protected species in these bats.
The Pest Management Center had to be asked to deal with it, but the Management Center has not been able to deal with it so far.
The staff at the center said they also had a hard time:
The bats are so small that they are hidden in hidden places, and many of them sneak in through ventilation ducts, so it's not easy to clean up the bats in every corner...
(Bat in the lobby of the school building)
In fact, the "bat plague" at the University of Georgia is not once or twice, and it has been a long-standing problem in almost the entire state of Georgia for many years.
Who made Georgia a place of bats?
Georgia is home to 16 species of bats, two of which are protected and endangered, and eight of which have been added to the list of protected species due to their declining numbers in recent years.
(16 species of bats in Georgia)
The large number of bats plays a vital role in maintaining Georgia's ecology (eliminating a large number of pests), but it also causes a lot of trouble for the local population.
Not only are they one of the main sources of infection of the virus, but they also often plague people's lives.
The most common are the great brown bats and Indiana bats, which often enter homes through roofs, chimneys, and ventilation ducts, and then hide in large groups in small groups.
If you don't pay attention, your home becomes a bat cave...
(Great Brown Bat)
(Indiana bats in a group)
However, in the face of a large number of bats gathered indoors, Georgian residents often do not dare to drive them away at will, lest one accidentally kill and injure the protected species, and inevitably have to suffer lawsuits...
(Bats congregating indoors)
For this reason, the pest treatment center in Georgia has also popularized how to get rid of bats without breaking the law.
sprinkled a large piece of content, in the final analysis, it is still one sentence:
Be careful and leave it to the professionals...
(Keeping Bats Away Without Breaking the Law: Protecting Homes and Protecting Bats)
As a result, after returning to school every year after the holidays, cleaning up bats has become a reserved program.
Many times, professors in the biology department and students get together to discuss how to keep the bats away.
(University of Georgia discusses the handling of bats)
Because it is frequented by a large number of bats every year, the University of Georgia is consistently ranked among the best in the United States for academic research on bats.
(University of Georgia recruits bat researchers)
However, every year, the bat clean-up operation will cause a large number of students to be dissatisfied because of the incomplete expulsion.
This time, in particular, despite the school's claim to have worked hard to clean up, the students returned to school and found a large number of hidden bats.
The leaders who manage the dormitories at the University of Georgia insist that they have plugged all the gaps and potentially broken vents in the roof of the dorm building, and don't know why there are so many ......
(The dormitory leader said that all the gaps and loopholes have been closed)
In any case, in today's University of Georgia dormitory, there are still a large number of photos of bats hiding from time to time, and this battle of wits and courage between humans and bats may continue for a while......
(Bat hiding in a corner tower)