Bat Night at Olompali State Historic Park

Did you know that an individual little brown bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitos in a single hour? Olompali State Historic Park is home to eight species of insectivorous bats! Learn more about our little flying friends at Olompali's annual Bat Night. Join us for an opportunity to meet live bats, view bat houses, create a bat mask, and make bat style s'mores. Just after dusk, Corky Quirk of NorCal Bats will present a slide show about the wonderful diversity and benefits of bats worldwide. At dark we hope to see some of the park's residents swoop and dive while they catch insects on the wing. Olompali State Historic Park provides excellent bat habitat because of its protected wild lands, lack of pesticide use, old snag trees and preserved historic buildings in which bats can roost. The species of bats documented at Olompali include the pallid bat, California myotis, big brown bat, hoary bat, western red bat, Townsend's big-eared bat, Mexican free-tail bat, and Yuma myotis.