The Forest Crescent Primary lunchtime woodworking club has been busily creating Microbat roosting boxes under the guidance of Mr Bill Jensen.
Keeping with our sustainability priorities, and after having built bird boxes in 2018 as a woodworking project, Mr Jensen thought it was appropriate to assist in continuing to care for our local fauna. Every night, our tiny native Australian microbats eat 40% to 50% of their own bodyweight in insect pests including mosquitoes, which is up to 1,000 mozzies a night! A microbat is aptly named because they are the size of an adult’s thumb, about 4cms or so long.
Because removal of trees, microbats now have fewer places in which are suitable for them to live and breed. By providing roosting boxes for microbats we can increase their numbers and have more of them working for us every night, eating mosquitoes and other insect pests.
The microbat roosting boxes were installed in the school grounds. Well done Mr Jensen and students on a great initiative.
Wood Working Club & Microbat Roosting Boxes
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