All About Bats

Name: All About Bats
Start: 2024-10-12T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-12T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 600 128th St SE, Everett, WA, United States, Washington 98208

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

600 128th St SE, Everett, WA, United States, Washington 98208 | Everett, WA

Attention all ghosts and goblins!!! This October, The Bat Lady and her friends of the night will be returning to the Adopt A Stream Foundation’s Northwest Stream Center on the evening of Saturday October 12th.
The Bat Lady also goes by the name of Barbara Ogaard. She rehabilitates injured bats for the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center and is a researcher for Bat’s Northwest. Live bats from Sarvey will also be part of the presentation, along with incredible photo images of bats from around the world and some very cool bat puppets!
Pre-Registration is recommended as this popular Streamkeeper Academy class often sells out! You can register online here at streamkeeper.org, in The Nature Store at the Northwest Stream Center, or by calling 425-316-8592.
ALL ABOUT BATS
Saturday October 12th, 7PM-8:30PM
$8 for AASF members
$10 for general admission.
At The Northwest Stream Center (in McCollum Park)
600 128th St SE,
Everett, WA 98208
“The Bat Lady puts on quite a show,” says Adopt A Stream Foundation Director Tom Murdoch. “She has this unique ability to engage little kids and old gray beards at the same time.”
Attend this show and you will learn that bats are beneficial in many ways. “One of my favorite foods is bananas” says Murdoch. “After learning from the Bat Lady that Fruit Bats pollinate banana trees, I became a big bat fan.” They also pollinate breadfruit, avocados, dates, figs, peaches and mangoes. In the tropics, bats spread seeds for trees that are essential for the rain forests. In North America bats control insects...a single Mouse Eared bat can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour!
The whole family will learn that we really don’t need to be worried about vampire bats. Real vampires are only found in the tropics and they don’t care for human blood...sorry Dracula, there are no vampires in Transylvania...and vampire saliva is being used in the development of a new medicine for people with heart disease! At the bat show you will see that while many bats are scary to look at, others are very beautiful, and some are so cute that they will bring a big smile to your face!!
ALL GHOSTS AND GOBLINS WHO WEAR A COSTUME WILL RECEIVE A FREE SALMON POSTER FROM THE ADOPT A STREAM FOUNDATION!!
Attention Media: White Nose Syndrome refers to a fungus that has killed an estimated 5.7 to 6.7 million bats. Bats have been affected by the fungus from the East coast to to the Rockies and has just hit Washington State. Imagine the insect problem that will occur without bats! Contact Barbara Ogaard for more details – she will provide you with a great interview.
For details on bats of the Pacific Northwest go to the Bats Northwest website: http://www.batsnorthwest.org/meet_our_bats.html
This event is conducted by the Adopt A Stream Foundation in partnership with the Snohomish County Parks and Recreation Department.