There are bird friendly gardens and there are butterfly or even hedgehog friendly gardens. And now to help the dwindling population of bats there are many people who are encouraging bats to be their garden guests.
Things to do to encourage the bats into your garden include:
- reduce the amount of insecticides that you use in your garden since some of these insecticides are harmful to the bats. Bats also feed on these insects which eliminates the need for insecticides to some extent.
- A garden full of flowers is an ideal ground for a variety of insects and the bats feast on these.
- Any small pond in the garden is also quite encouraging.
- Feed the bats with live mealworms!!
Now is a good time to encourage bats since the bats come out of hibernation during the spring.
At Really Wild Bird Food, in order to encourage bat friendly gardens, we now have in our stock the British Born and Bred Live Mealworms for bats. We offer this bat feed especially after special requests from a few of our bat friendly garden owner clients. These come in 1 kg bat packs and are specially packed keeping in mind complete safety of the bats. The storage of this live feed is also quite simple and can be easily stored at normal temperatures. Check the details on the website.
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