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Fertilizer and pest control

Bats can eat up to 3,000 insects a night and are becoming increasingly more common among neighborhoods to use as natural pest control. Especially for communities at high risk of diseases such as zika, west nile virus, and St. Louis encephalitis, bats can decrease the population of mosquitoes and other pests naturally, without the use of pesticides. Bats also perform important pest control for farmers, cutting down the numbers of pests that eat and destroy their crops. Farmers in turn are protective of bats and often have bat houses near their crop fields to help attract and house bats for their natural pest control.

Bat guano is a natural fertilizer used by gardeners and plant enthusiasts across the world. Bat guano is a natural and organic fertilizer that not only benefits the plants, but also benefits the bats as many gardeners will build bat houses to house the bats, their natural fertilizer supplier. Bat guano contains many elements that benefit plant growth: carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Therefore, because of its natural properties, guano has become very popular across the world for its use as a natural and organic fertilizer.