Bats and Owls: An Eco-Friendly Pest Control Solution

When you think of pest control, you probably think chemicals and poison, not bats and owls.

A South African firm has an eco-friendly solution — one that doesn’t involve chemicals sometimes banned in other countries — to help deal with pests like the dreaded tomato leaf miner moth wreaking havoc on Nigeria’s tomato crop.

The solution is bats, or more specifically, bat houses.

South Africa-based EcoSolutions says it manages some of the largest bat and insect mitigation programs in the world, and it wants to set up bat houses in Nigeria, where the Nigerian free-tailed bat (Chaerephon nigeriae) would be an excellent candidate for a project controlling miner moths.

http://afkinsider.com/129565/south-african-company-uses-bats-and-owls-as-agricultural-allies/

Stuart Richards

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