Saturday, January 15 2011, 3:04am EST
By Mayer Nissim, Senior Entertainment Reporter
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A bat sanctuary in Australia has taken in around 160 fruitbats following recent flooding in Queensland.
The flying mammals were abandoned by their mothers because of the torrential rain and many have been adopted by Trish and Terry Wimberley's Advancetown's Australian Bat Clinic, Rex Features reports.
Trish said: "They need to be fed every four hours as well as have their swaddling changed.
"At the moment we're going through AU$1,000 (£620) worth of fruit a week plus huge amounts of human baby formula, which the baby bats drink. The washing machine and dryer have been going non-stop since the start of December."
Dig a deep pit. Fill it with flood water. Fit these people wiith concrete boots. Chuck them in.
POLICE have warned of an increasing number of scams to rob Queensland's flood victims as the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said the economic cost of the disaster will be the highest in Australia's history.
The scams include tricking victims into giving their bank details to people claiming they will help them obtain emergency funds.
Scammers claiming to be tradesmen are also going into affected areas offering to repair the damage and demanding payment in advance before disappearing.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Here is the aftermarth of the water. This is the main road into town we now have to go around to the hyway adding half an hour to the run.
As I said we are so lucky and thankfull to all for the offers of help and the good wishes.
Police have found another body in Granthom in a house searched three times before. They say it might be weeks before all the missing are found. Making the repair of the roads a long way off. Our bridge is a small cocern in the big plan
I couldn't get a picture of the missing tarmack. It is just off the bridge as if someone had taken a knife and just sliced it off and dropped it to the side
Aardy, that you and yours are all OK is the best news.
Gob, wherever disaster falls there will ALWAYS be a scumbag willing to rip off the victims. I just hope they catch them and dispense swift justice to the knacker regions.
Daisy
QLD courts have been given the power of Minnimum sentance for anyone court steeling in areas evacuated is 3 years for each house or building they are found to have entered.
Police can arrest anyone found in disarster areas that don't have a legale reason for being there and they can be held for prolonged times till transport can be arranged. ( You can sit here in a car till we are finished our shift in 8 hours)
And to think the number of them that spred the Hendra virous (Horse Flue)
Can be fatal to humans and hores. So a program of shooting and poisoning is used to controle the numbers in areas of humans and horses occupation.
But most of all the F#$KING smell under a collonny is so bad makes your eyes bleed and the noise is so bad it makes your bun bleed.
Not that I dilike fruit bat, flying foxes or even airal rats I just wouldn
't want them anywhere near where I live
I'm reminded of an evening in Bundaberg town centre. The noise was excruciating! Hundreds and hundreds of the little furry bastards hanging off the trees and screaming (or so it seemed...).
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
We had bats in the eaves of our lake house. Had to wait until they migrated south for the winter and then sealed up the openings. First had to take down the eaves and flashing and get the guano out. Full hazmat suit and repirators for all involved in the cleanup.
You should build bat houses on the edge of the property to house them when they return - that way you'll get the benefit of the insect control they provide without having to worry about them finding their way back into your eaves.
bigskygal wrote:You should build bat houses on the edge of the property to house them when they return - that way you'll get the benefit of the insect control they provide without having to worry about them finding their way back into your eaves.
Actually, the plans suggest mounting the bat house on your house is the best bet.
Way ahead of you, we already have about 10 bat houses all around the property, have for about 10 years. Dad broke his nose putting one up (didn't lock the extension ladder and did a Clark W. Griswold). Been noticing that fewer and fewer houses are being occupied each spring/summer. Also noticed fewer bats flying on the lake at night (bought some night vision goggles to see what is going on on the lake at night, pretty cool). There is some disease running around I thinks it's called "white nose disease" where some kind of white fungus gets on their noses and is killing the bats here in the north east.
ETA
There was a big "fat" pine tree we were going to cut down as it was leaning into the lake, but found a bat's "nest" (lair?) inside and decided to leave it up. Even went and cabled it to a real sturdy oak tree further inland to keep it from falling. Should be ok for a while.
Been noticing that fewer and fewer houses are being occupied each spring/summer. Also noticed fewer bats flying on the lake at night (bought some night vision goggles to see what is going on on the lake at night, pretty cool). There is some disease running around I thinks it's called "white nose disease" where some kind of white fungus gets on their noses and is killing the bats here in the north east.