Indiana Bat, i.e. Myotis sodalis that is native to North America refers to the species that are usually found in the eastern sectors of United States. This smaller creature weights less than ten grams and looks like a mouse-eared bat. With the chestnut-brown black colored fur it can be characterized with its foot and coloration features.
The Indiana Bat is famous for indulging in things including moths, beetles, leafhoppers, mosquitoes and small flying aquatic insects. These features depend upon the geographic locations. These small animals are capable of eating almost half of their body-weight in insects during each night. They are one of the nature’s most valuable pest controls as regards the human beings.
It is worth noting that river and stream beds are the living places for the Indian Bat during summer seasons. Riparian zones, hardwood forests and upland wooded areas are the places where the Indian Bats usually reside. Loose tree barks and dead trees are the usual roosting places for the female bats and their offspring during maternity season.
Periods between November and March are the particular months when these bats usually hibernate in deep mines and abandoned caves. Temperatures under 50°F are suitable for these bats.
It may be noted that the Indiana Bats have the tendency to hibernate in large quantities and in smaller numbers of caves. As such they fall prey to disturbances that may lead to death of a large numbers of hibernating bats. Indian Bats are prone to decline because of human disturbances. White-nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) has also been responsible for their reduced numbers. This is where conservation efforts have been initiated to discourage these exposures including cave gating and decontamination techniques.
Bat Conservation and Management involving Southern ecological surveys etc. are aimed at providing a team of biologists for inspection and examination of the prospective habitat for anybody’s species of interest. Any possible suitable habitat being encountered is permanently documented with apt forms, photographs and GPS search tracks to and from the areas of interest. With highest quality of data; Bat Conservation and Management helps in recoding the surveyed areas.
BCM, i.e. Bat Conservation and Management is familiar to mist-netting as far as Indian Bats are concerned. It has initiated successful surveys of thousands of individual mist net sites since the last fifteen years. The projects requiring mist-netting may approach BCM that is capable of offering efficient sampling of the relevant project area. The following reasons are responsible for such summer bat surveying techniques:
- Acquisition of baseline data for a specified region or rare species that has not undergone a complete study.
- Classification of the existence of species in the areas that may be affected with new construction.
- Searching for threatened or endangered species in the particular areas before sales or development of timber.
Bat Conservation and Management is there to help you out for mist-netting projects involving Southern Ecological surveys and other such activities. You will feel at ease from the start to the end of your project.
