Lived in an apartment complex with a small pool at the center. It was an absolute breeding pit for mosquitoes which, in turn, became an all you can eat buffet for the bats.
But bats scared the neighbors, so an exterminator was called in to kill them all. And within a month, swarms of mosquitoes were all over the complex.
This reads as a series of obvious outcomes, followed by said outcomes coming true.
That sounds like the pool wasn’t properly chlorinated which is a terrible health hazard.
“So what’s really cool with these bats eating their body weight in bugs, which are primarily agricultural pests. Traveling about 60 miles one way to forage over where we have our corn and cotton and sorghum crops,” he said. “They’re going to fly 60 miles, and up to 10,000 feet in altitude, they’re going to eat their body weight in bugs, which is over 150 tons of bugs tonight. And they’re going to come back, nurse their young and do this all over again tomorrow.”
Source: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/bracken-bat-cave-texas-colony-batnado/
Went there and watched them fly out at dusk on a vacation as a kid back in the early 90’s. It was really cool seeing such a massive amount of bats all at once.
