A Chicago-area bat educator will be in Sarnia on Wednesday and Thursday, trying to dispel the negative image the flying mammals may have. Sharon Peterson will bring along live Egyptian fruit bats and an African straw-coloured flying fox species to three different locations, according to Canadian Institute for Bat Research Executive Director Jeff Bender. "We're doing a lot of education shows in the area," he says. "We trying to make people more aware of how important bats really are not only for our ecosystems but for our own health as well." Bender says a single brown bat will eat up to 6,000 insects a night. A substance found in the anti-coagulant of Vampire bats is used to help prevent blood clots in stroke victims and bats help pollinate plants like bees do.
Locations: Green Drinks meeting Wed. Aug. 10 7pm-8pm Return The Landscape, 100 Christina St. N. Aamjiwnaang First Nation Band Office Thurs. Aug.11 12-2pm Sarnia Public Library Thurs Aug 11. 7pm (ticketed event $5. free for children ten and under)