UCF Arboretum Tour #4 - Bat Houses Traditional Cache

Bats are the most important controller of night-flying insects, many considered pests. One small bat can eat up to 600 insects an hour! Most insect-eating bats eat their body weight in insects each night. But bats are disappearing at alarming rates. Disturbance or destruction of roost sites due to development and vandalism is the greatest threat to the world’s bats. Most bats living in Florida prefer to roost in mature or dead trees or in caves. However, many bats are forced to take up residence in human dwellings or other buildings due to loss of these type of habitat. Bat houses are a perfect way to get involved in conservation. A bat house in your backyard provide bats with a much needed, safe place to live. They will also do you the return favor of eating insects around the area. information about bats is available at http://www.floridabats.org/BatHouses.htm

This cache is part of the UCF Arboretum tour series.

• Final Cache (multi-puzzle)
• #1 - Trailhead
• #2 - Cypress Dome
• #3 - Cypress Dome
• #4 - Bat Houses
• #5 - Sand Scrub
• #6 - Nissa Pond
• #7 - Orchids

When logging your find please also include the number of people in your party and we also love to see photos of you or your group at play. We hope you enjoy the arboretum and learn something useful from the UCF Arboretum Geocache series.