Against mosquitoes Bat box. The bat is a "bug" natural - Gaianews.it

MILAN – On April 23, was present it’s new campaign “A bat for friend” in the room Alessi, Palazzo Marino, to disseminate and popularize the use of bat boxes, wooden houses in which they can live bats. In front of a large audience a journalist David Mengacci has introduced the speakers, numerous and qualified.

Into The bats are not exactly graceful creatures and often without eliciting great sympathy, but are useful for controlling the growth of harmful insects, as if they feed voraciously, and above all are excellent bio-indicators of air quality and the environment in which they live.

Into The bats, which feed mainly on insects, due to pollution, lack of safe havens and areas where you can hunt, have become animals at risk. E ‘therefore must be committed to their conservation.

Into It ‘here comes into play Bat Box, a small wooden house for bats funded by Coop thanks to a project in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History, University of Florence.

Into Latin Maura, vice president of Coop Italy, presented the campaign in Milan this way: “For more than seven years [Bat Box] involves citizens, the scientific community, the firm Coop and the media.”

Into During the evening, the essayist and zooantropologo Roberto Marchesini has spoken of “debt” that men towards other animal species, some of which susicitano in us a “dangerous fascination” as the bat. This is for man a “source of mixed feelings” that have their roots in an “ambiguous territory-ambivalent (the night clubs, the hidden, the unknown)”, which is also the only mammal capable of flight, is in a “zone of the boundary between the air and the earth.”

Into Calzolari Joseph, director of the School of Comics, made a funny account of “hardships” that designers have brought two students of the school, Alexander Ambrosoni and Antonio Manzo, with a screenplay by Mark Madoglio, a former student of the school, to realize the comic What is the Bat Box – Here’s the real story . Among the characters, cartoon characters, just the bat specialists of the Observatory: Paolo Agnelli, Laura Ducci, James maltagliati and Cosimo Guaita.

Into Paolo Agnelli, in the flesh among the speakers at Palazzo Marino, briefly and clearly illustrated the characteristics of bats and bat-boxes, designed by the Study Group of the Observatory and sold in stores Coop.

Into During the event, 100 houses for bats were donated to the City of Milan to be placed in the city.