What if I get bitten by a "mammal" bat? What are the symptoms? Is it poisonous? How do you drive away bats when you get into the house?

With the advent of summer, a large number of snakes, insects, rats and ants are on the market. While doing a good job in preventing mosquito bites, we should also be careful of bat attacks. What if I get bitten by a bat? What are the symptoms? Is it poisonous? how do you drive away bats when you get into the house?

Bats are Chiroptera. Chiroptera is the second largest group of animals after rodents and the only mammal that has evolved the ability to fly. There are 19 families, 185 genera and 961 species. Except for some islands in the polar regions and oceans, it is distributed all over the world, with the largest number of bats in the tropics and subtropics. Most bats rest during the day and look for food at night.

Are bats poisonous?

It is well known that bats can spread disease to humans through feces and bites, so we should avoid contact with bats so as not to be infected with the virus they carry.

Up to now, researchers at home and abroad have detected or isolated more than 130 kinds of viruses from bats by various methods, nearly half of which are zoonotic viruses, including rabies and rabies-related viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, Trichoviridae, Flaviridae, Buni viridae, sandlike viridae, reoviridae, paramyxoviridae, herpesviridae and other virus members.

In addition, statistics show that one species of bat can carry an average of 2.71 viruses, while one virus also exists in 4.51 species of bats, which can be compared with rodents, another important host of pathogen carrier and transmission. The two numbers are 2.48 and 2.76 respectively. In this respect, the role of bats in the transmission of pathogens should not be underestimated.

What are the symptoms of being bitten by a bat? What should I do?

(1) in general, the toxicity of bats is similar to that of poisonous wasps. When bitten, there will be itching, swelling, pain and blisters.

(2) the most serious cases are fever, low blood pressure, arrhythmia and even shock after being bitten.

But if you are unlucky and bitten by a bat, what measures should you take immediately? Here are some methods summed up by professionals based on years of experience:

1. if members of the public are bitten by bats, they are advised to wash iodophor with local soapy water, and then do not bandage the wound, go to nearby hospitals or health and epidemic prevention stations as soon as possible to receive rabies vaccination, avoid spicy and stimulating diet and avoid drinking alcohol.

2. Try to find out if bats have rabies. The only way to know if an animal is infected with rabies is to find the virus in the brain after the animal dies. A live bat infected with rabies can be observed from some common behavior. They may seem docile and will not flee even when they encounter humans on a rabid night. On the contrary, if a bat behaves angrily and makes a vicious attack without provocation, it is likely to carry the disease. In some cases, animals have too much saliva and foam in their mouths. So whether the bat that bites you has rabies or not, the best way is to go to the hospital for wound treatment and immunoglobulin and vaccination.

To sum up, please remember that rabies is not just a dog disease! All warm-blooded animals (cats, dogs, mice) may carry rabies. So if you get bitten, please don't take any chances. Get vaccinated against rabies immediately.

What kind of food do bats eat?

Bats eat a wide range of animals, some species like nectar, fruit, some like to eat fish, frogs, insects, feed on animal blood, and even eat other bats. Generally speaking, large bats generally feed on fruit or nectar, while most small bats prey on insects.

There are all kinds of bats to eat: fruits, fish, pollen, and even blood. Most bats prey on insects when they fly at night, and each bat can recognize its own sound waves, indicating that even if it hunts with other bats, it will not be disturbed by other sound waves.

What kind of animals are the natural enemies of bats?

The main natural enemies of burrowing bats are snakes and lizards, and the natural enemies of arboreal (some fruit bats) are also some birds of prey and cats. Other natural enemies of bats are humans, such as the great bats in Guam, which became extinct because of the predation of the local people.

How do you drive away bats when you get into the house?

Expert advice is:

1. Change the environment at home.

two。 The way is to drive it away with a smokescreen.

3. Buy an insect repellent and connect it to a power source, which can drive the bat to escape.

Clean the house, because it may be because something in the house is attractive to it, some female bats have the ability to attract other males, especially bat blood!

Bats are located by sound waves. If there are bats at home, first, they can use smoke screens to drive bats away, such as lighting used mosquito repellents. Be careful not to light open fire, as long as there is smoke coming out.

In addition, the electronic insect repellent can be connected to the power supply, and the sound waves emitted inside can also drive away bats.

Although bats rarely bite, you are advised not to try to attack bats, because almost 5% of bats carry rabies, and if bats are frightened when driven away, they are likely to attack humans.

The role of bats

Bats and their feces can be used as medicine.

It can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine for chronic cough, malaria, gonorrhea, eye nebula and so on. It is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine called night-bright sand, which is used for eye diseases. "hold Puzi" said: "Thousand-year-old bats, such as snow, the collection is upside down, the brain is heavy." "Wu's Materia Medica" also says that bats "dry in the shade after the Beginning of Summer, cure their eyes, and make people see brightly at night." the Water Sutra even says that bats "get it and make people immortal."

The positive effect of bats on human beings

1. Bats play a very important role in maintaining the ecological balance of nature. All kinds of insectivorous bats can kill a large number of mosquitoes, night moths, beetles, nymphs and other pests, and can hunt more than 3000 in one night, which is beneficial to human beings.

2. The feces collected by bats are still good fertilizers and are useful for agricultural production. The processed bat dung is called "night bright sand", which is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine.

3. Bats are also important objects for human beings to study animal orientation, positioning and dormancy. With the help of bionic principle, humans have created radar based on the echolocation system of bats.

4. Bats are the easiest species of mammals to sample quickly from the wild. In the highly competitive academic community, it is far easier and economical to study bats than most other species.

Bats are mostly symbols of "happiness". People call bats cunning.

Bats are referred to as "bats". Because of the homonym of "bats" and "Fu", people use bats to express good fortune, Fu Lu Shou Xi and other auspicious things. Five bats are painted in folk painting, meaning "five blessings in the door". In the old days, silk brocade was often patterned with bat patterns.

The Jingpo people in Yunnan Province generally believe that bats are a symbol of insidious cunning. Legend has it that in ancient times the temperature of the sun was so high that the animals on the ground were unbearably roasted and cursed one after another. The sun was so angry that he turned his head and went up to heaven. The world has been dark ever since. So all the animals gathered together and agreed to raise some gold and silver to ask the sun to come out. When the bird raised money from the bat, the bat folded his wings and said that he was not a bird but a rodent and was unwilling to donate money. When the mouse found it, it flapped its wings again, saying that it belonged to birds, not rats, and did not donate money. In this way, the bat did not donate a penny. Therefore, the Jingpo people call those who are duplicitous, resourceful and face-to-face "Batmen".

In Chinese culture, bats are absolutely the symbol of "happiness", but if people are called bats, there is no auspicious meaning in it. The above legend has been told very clearly.