Are Bats Attracted To Your Hair?

Most people are not educated about bats and for that reason they are highly misunderstood. But the truth is that bats are not out to drink your blood, pass on rabies or become tangled in your hair. The only blood drinking bats are vampire bats in South America and less than 1% of bats carry rabies.

Imagine your self out for an evening walk and you are constantly brushing away those annoying 

mosquitoes and moths. Or picture yourself sitting on your porch and along comes those evening bugs to make your relaxing moment nothing more than a swat fest.

The bats in United States are insectivores. That means they eat insect and they eat a lot of them. One bat can eat over 1000 insects a night. Now combine that to the number of bats flying around in your area. They provide us with great relief from these insects because if the bats were not present, those evening pests would have an astronomical increase in numbers.

Now let us bring the three together and bust that myth about bats attracted to your hair. The truth is that bats could care less about humans or their hair. The bats are actually attracted to all those bugs flying around your head and lights. They come in to catch the insects and people seem to think they are swooping down at them. But that is not the case. There can be rare cases where the bat misjudges and can become tangled in your hair. But the bottom line is that the bat was only after the insects.

So the next time you see one swoop down toward your head, be appreciative that he is helping get rid of those bugs.