{"product_id":"nevs-hand-built-bat-box","title":"Nev's Hand-Built Bat Box","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Poppins:wght@300;400;500;600;700\u0026display=swap');\n.prod-wrapper { font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif !important; max-width: 860px !important; margin: 0 auto !important; color: #2a2a2a !important; line-height: 1.65 !important; font-size: 16px !important; }\n.prod-wrapper * { box-sizing: border-box !important; }\n.prod-hero { background: #2e3b31 !important; color: #ffffff !important; padding: 44px 32px !important; border-radius: 12px !important; text-align: center !important; margin-bottom: 28px !important; }\n.prod-hero .prod-hero-icon { font-size: 40px !important; line-height: 1 !important; margin-bottom: 14px !important; }\n.prod-hero h2 { font-size: 27px !important; font-weight: 600 !important; margin: 0 0 10px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; }\n.prod-hero p { font-size: 16px !important; margin: 0 !important; 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width: 34% !important; background: #faf7f1 !important; }\n@media (max-width: 600px) { .prod-includes { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr) !important; } .prod-features { grid-template-columns: 1fr !important; } .prod-hero { padding: 32px 22px !important; } .prod-hero h2 { font-size: 23px !important; } .prod-specs td:first-child { width: 42% !important; } }\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero\" style=\"background:#2e3b31 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero-icon\" style=\"color:#ffffff !important;\"\u003e🦇\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"color:#ffffff !important;\"\u003eBuilt in a converted dairy shed outside Chiltern, north-east Victoria\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color:#e6e2d6 !important;\"\u003eNev Tarrant, 71. Entomologist for thirty-eight years. Sixty-one boxes left against the shed wall, and then no more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-story\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prod-quote\"\u003e“A box doesn’t bring the moths back. But there’s no sense in the insects coming back to a district where there’s nowhere to sleep. One of those problems takes a hundred and fifty years. The other one takes me two days and a length of ironbark.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prod-author\"\u003e— Nev Tarrant, Chiltern, VIC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"prod-h3\"\u003eWhat comes in the carton\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-includes\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-icon\"\u003e🏠\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-name\"\u003eThe box\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-desc\"\u003eFallen ironbark \u0026amp; yellow box, bark left on\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-icon\"\u003e🔽\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-name\"\u003eOpen-bottom entry\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-desc\"\u003eThe only way in — they land low and climb\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-icon\"\u003e📏\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-name\"\u003eGrooved interior\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-desc\"\u003eTight crevices, back and belly both on timber\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-icon\"\u003e📝\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-name\"\u003eSiting card\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-inc-desc\"\u003eAspect, height and the month to put it up\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"prod-h3\"\u003eSix decisions, and a reason for every one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-features\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e🌡\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eThe Forty-Degree Margin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eAbove about 40°C a bat leaves a roost; near 45°C it stops coming out. Thick untreated hardwood holds the inside on the safe side of that line through a February afternoon.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e🪵\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eThe Mass Build\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eWeight is the feature, not a flaw. Dense ironbark takes half an afternoon to warm through and is still climbing when the sun comes off it. No vents, no coatings, no gimmicks.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e🔍\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eThe Cabinet Tolerance\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eThe internal crevice comes straight out of forty years of felt-sealed specimen drawers. Tight enough that back and belly touch timber at once — the pressure that says settle.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e⬇\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eThe Underneath Entry\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eNo front door. The box is open at the bottom and they climb up into it, exactly as they go up into a hollow behind a limb. The face gaps are structural only.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e🌳\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eThe Fallen-Ironbark Frame\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eYellow box and red ironbark off his own block and the neighbours’ paddocks. Nothing standing is ever cut for it — only what is already down.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-icon\"\u003e🚫\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-title\"\u003eNothing Treated\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-feat-text\"\u003eNo CCA, no preservative, no oil, no paint, no zinc, no tar, no roofing felt. The deliberate opposite of every box he ever put a temperature logger inside.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert\" style=\"background:#1e2821 !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert-label\" style=\"color:#c9a86a !important;\"\u003eFrom a wildlife ecologist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert-quote\" style=\"color:#ffffff !important;\"\u003e“The question people should be asking about a bat box is not how it looks. It is what the inside of it does at four o’clock on a hot afternoon. Thin ply on a west-facing wall can run several degrees hotter than a dense box of the same design, and the margin between a roost a bat will use and one it walks out of is small. Mass and untreated timber are unglamorous answers, and they are the right ones. Aspect matters just as much — give it morning sun and keep it out of the western afternoon.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert-name\" style=\"color:#ffffff !important;\"\u003eDr. Marion Halliwell\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert-role\" style=\"color:#c9a86a !important;\"\u003eWildlife ecologist — two decades of hollow-fauna survey work, south-eastern Australia\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"prod-h3\"\u003eWho puts one up\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-perfect-for\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🦟 Mosquito control without spray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🏡 Back sheds \u0026amp; garages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🌿 Rural blocks \u0026amp; hobby farms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🍅 Vegetable growers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🐦 Wildlife gardeners\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🎄 A present for someone who has everything\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🎓 School \u0026amp; landcare projects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🔭 Anyone who has tried a cheap box and got nothing\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"prod-h3\"\u003eWhat you are actually paying for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"prod-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDensity, not thickness on paper\u003c\/strong\u003e Ironbark and yellow box are among the heaviest timbers in the country. That mass is the entire temperature strategy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA measured crevice\u003c\/strong\u003e Built to the same tolerance as a sealed specimen drawer, because a quarter of an inch too wide and a bat reads it as open ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBark left on\u003c\/strong\u003e Rough outside to climb, grooved inside to grip. Machined and sanded timber gives them nothing to hold.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenuinely untreated\u003c\/strong\u003e No CCA pine, no decking oil, no stain. A bat spends its whole day pressed flat against that surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBuilt one at a time\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand-bored entry slot, hand-cut crevices, in one shed, by one person, with no more coming after these.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee-title\"\u003e30-day return, no argument\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf it is not right for you, send an email and it is sorted — no risk, no freight bill at your end. The only thing that cannot be replaced is the box itself: when the sixty-one are gone, there are no more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-note\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo things worth knowing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every box is made from fallen timber, so no two are identical — bark, grain and colour vary, and that variation is the point rather than a fault. And timing matters more than most people expect: Australian microbats carry pups from about November, so a box that goes up in \u003cstrong\u003espring\u003c\/strong\u003e gets found and settled before it counts. One that goes up in January is an ornament until next season.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"prod-h3\"\u003eThe details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"prod-specs\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFallen yellow box \u0026amp; red ironbark logs on a pine backboard\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBare natural timber, bark left on — no paint, stain, oil or preservative; weathers to silver-grey\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSet contents\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1 bat box with open-bottom entry \u0026amp; grooved interior · siting card\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions (outer)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApprox. 35 × 23 × 13 cm (13.8 × 9.1 × 5.1 in)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoost\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNarrow grooved interior crevices, reached from the open bottom\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEntry\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOpen bottom — the only way in; they climb up into the crevices\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSuits\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCrevice-roosting microbats — Gould’s wattled bat and the lesser long-eared bat above all\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eColour\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNatural timber (single finish)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSiting\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNorth-east aspect for morning warmth, sheltered from the hot western afternoon sun, 4–5 m (13–16 ft) up, clear of lights, open flight line\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBest time to fit\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpring (September–November), before pups arrive\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCare\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAlmost none — a look from below once a year in late autumn. Never open an occupied box.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMade\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-built by Nev Tarrant outside Chiltern, north-east Victoria\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinal batch — 61 only, no restock · 4.8 ★\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Handmade by Nev Tarrant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59277682901340,"sku":"BG-NEV-BATBOX","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0903\/4081\/9292\/files\/g01-prod-01-stump-garden_1987191e-7a89-44b8-b805-1f7d630d288b.jpg?v=1790344429","url":"https:\/\/backroad-goods.com\/products\/nevs-hand-built-bat-box","provider":"BACKROAD GOODS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}