Description
Our New England bats need standing deadwood trees and bugs.
Each evening, bats leave their roosts to eat up to 50 percent of their body weight—or more, if they are lactating females—in insects like moths, flies, beetles, and mosquitoes. In our landscape, one of bats’ best bets for an insect-heavy foraging spot is a structurally complex forest with ample understory strata where insects can fly without strong winds and move around on abundant tree leaves and twigs. In addition, bats forage along forest edge habitats, utilizing stream riparian corridors, ponds, hedgerows and even forest roads as flyways. – New England Forestry
Trees (especially oak trees) provide many benefits to bats, including roosting habitat and support a multitude of insects. To increase bat habitat, we offer a kit of 6 trees total of native varieties of the following species
| 1 | dogwood, silky | Cornus amomum |
| 1 | cherry, eastern sand | Prunus pumila |
| 1 | wild black cherry | Prunus serotina |
| 1 | chokecherry | Prunus virginiana |
| 1 | Oak, Red | Quercus rubra |
| 1 | oak, black | Quercus velutina |