Good morning! Happy New Year tomorrow!
I did try patching nail holes in my living room, but I can see the new (old) paint is a bit off from the old paint - sigh…. I’ll probably repaint the walls or have a professional do them when I’m moving. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night
. Maybe a nap today?
I’ll be listening to my favorite musician tonight for his new year’s celebration online. Not planning on staying up till midnight, that’s for sure! We got about an inch of snow last night - debating whether to shovel that or wait for it to melt this week…
Laura, thanks for the new titles! There was a duplicate date on 4/7, so I added the duplicate to the end of the list, so we’re covered till June 16th now. So is Miss Polly a New Year’s Eve partier?
Paula, Bats normally catch and eat flying insects, not mealworms, but we’re not going to put flying insects in their cages. I guess mealworms taste pretty similar to flying insects (and mealworms are baby insects), but we have to teach the bats that they are a food they can eat. First feedings take a while - we’ll tear off the end of the worm so the bat can taste and smell that as food and it’s individual worms that we feed to the bats with forceps. Some have medical issues also, so they can be really reluctant to eat
. As they get used to the worms, they’ll eat them intact and eventually they’ll start eating them from the Petri dish that we put the worms in. It’s a good day when they learn to eat on their own! Once they eat on their own we can put them in a kennel where we put the dish of worms into - they start in an aquarium. Once they get to a certain body condition, we can put them into a hibernaculum where they’ll sleep off the winter and be released in spring when insects are back in the air. Frankly, I’m amazed that they can adjust to eating mealworms - it would be like us adjusting to eat squid.
Waves to all!
Anita