Hygieostatic Bat Roost

The Hygieostatic Bat Roost is situated in Texas. It was raised in 1918 on property claimed by previous San Antonio Mayor Pro Tem Albert Steves, who had appointed San Antonio wellbeing officer Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell to plan the structure. The shingled pyramid-molded raised pinnacle stands 30 feet high. One dormer fills in as a passageway for the bats, while alternate dormers are decorative. The lower segment of the pinnacle permits access for people. The solid base of the pinnacle is raised 7 feet off the ground, encouraging wagons being driven underneath to gather the guano.

Campbell had been looking into a technique for controlling the spread of mosquito-conveyed jungle fever, by empowering the bug's regular adversary, the bat. In spite of the fact that mosquitoes have other regular adversaries, a considerable lot of them are dynamic just amid the daytime hours, while bats fly looking for nourishment amid the night when mosquitoes are most active. Campbell protected his bat perch outline and raised a few of them in the San Antonio region starting in 1907. At the point when the bat perch was based on his Kendall County property, Steves begat the name Hygieostatic Bat Roost in view of the Greek words hygiea and stasis. The relatives of Albert Steves still possess the property where the pinnacle is found.