‘Bat house’ could be solution for upstate school

FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (AP) — Don’t call it the Bat Cave, but a special dwelling for the nocturnal critters could be the solution for a Greenville County school recently infested by the animals.

The Greenville News reports (http://grnol.co/yl01hS ) that Susan Loeb, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, says specially constructed “bat houses” have been proven to work elsewhere.

Fountain Inn Elementary School was closed Friday a day after a bat was found in the music room. School officials had thought all the animals were gone Wednesday, when a crew installed a device that allowed hundreds of bats living in the walls to fly out but not return.

Loeb says a small wooden bat house could be placed on school grounds to draw the animals away from the building.

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Information from: The Greenville News, http://www.greenvillenews.com