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Originally Posted by Monticore
They eat a lot of bugs including mosquitoes, so not horrible to have around the backyard , keeping them out of my old ass house is the problem.
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This one time Welder buddy and I were night fishing on a local state lake.
In my boat, anchored in a cove fishing the bottom for catfish. This particular evening also happened find us in the middle of a mayfly hatch, so I had all the lights turned off because they would swarm us as soon as I turned them on. And they were fresh out of the larval stage so they were soft and squishy, trying to fly into mouth and eyes, up nose, just not a pleasant thing so we fished by moonlight. After several minutes of sitting in the dark a bat flew between us. Since Welder buddy's night vision is screwed from a couple decades of watching high current electricity melt steel he couldn't see them but bats were flying all around us feeding on the mayflies. He ducked and yelled, "WTF WAS THAT!?" I laughed a little and said, "it's just a bat, dude, calm down". After a few more minutes a bat came at us from his left, did a 180 around his head then flew between us headed back the same direction it came from. That was enough for Welder buddy, he threw his pole down and exclaimed "That's it! I'm done!" So we packed up and headed out, fish weren't biting for shit anyway, but you'll be glad to know that I still give him a ration of shit for it.