Hallowe'en is just around the corner and along with "How to Carve a Pumpkin" books and cookbooks featuring squash and pumpkins, Hallowe'en sticker books and storybooks we have all kind of bat items: fingerpuppets, storybooks, even a robotic bat with flashing eyes that kids can make!
At Nature Lover's Bookshop, we LOVE bats! Earlier this year, we invited a bat expert from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Amy Cameron, and the place was packed! Amy gave a most inspiring and entertaining presentation on Ontario's Little Brown Bat, and its many benefits especially as a mosquito-eating phenom! A mother bat will eat its weight in mosquitoes every day. These fascinating, nocturnal, echolocating little mammals (our only mammals that truly fly) are very beneficial to humans in other ways besides being an impressive insect devourer. They pollinate flowers and plant new trees!
Amy Cameron explained that the species is at risk due White Nose Syndrome, a fungus that is alarmingly decimating the bat population. We learned many ways to protect bats by building warm houses for them (we have books in the store on how to build bat houses) and how to create a bat-friendly habitat.
You can see that we love these often misunderstood and maligned creatures and you've learned why we do. Check some of the books on our shelves: http://www.bookmanager.com/nature/?STG=307058928&opt=kw&q=h.ts&tsf=y&so=oh&qs=bats
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