{"id":48171,"date":"2024-05-06T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=48171"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:20:41","slug":"accs-riverbat-habitat-building-bat-houses-for-mosquito-munching-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2024\/05\/06\/accs-riverbat-habitat-building-bat-houses-for-mosquito-munching-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC&#8217;s Riverbat Habitat: Building Bat Houses for Mosquito-Munching Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know one bat can consume up to 4,500 mosquitoes in just one night? As the local bat population remains threatened by displacement in Central Texas, Austin Community College District (ACC) works to ensure they have a home\u2013\u2013and what better home than with our Riverbats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Earth Week, ACC\u2019s Architectural &amp; Engineering CAD (A&amp;E CAD) Department and Green Team joined forces to build 13 bat houses. Each house will be located near all ACC campuses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This collaborative effort, hosted in A&amp;E CAD&#8217;s Advanced Design and Fabrication Lab, demonstrates the community&#8217;s commitment to fostering positive environmental change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the work below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/200633712@N04\/albums\/72177720316734942\" title=\"ACC SP24 Earth Week by accdistricttwitter, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53702065717_befc513142_c.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Earth Week 2024 | Bat Houses'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the Energy &amp; Sustainability Office and ACC\u2019s environmental efforts, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/offices.austincc.edu\/energy-and-sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on A&amp;E CAD programs, <a href=\"https:\/\/programs.austincc.edu\/design-manufacturing-construction-and-applied-technologies\/architectural-and-engineering-computer-aided-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know one bat can consume up to 4,500 mosquitoes in just one night? As the local bat population remains threatened by displacement in Central Texas, Austin Community College District (ACC) works to ensure they have a home\u2013\u2013and what better home than with our Riverbats! During Earth Week, ACC\u2019s Architectural &amp; Engineering CAD (A&amp;E [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":48172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[496,495,497,498,432,494,499],"class_list":["post-48171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acc-in-photos","tag-ae-cad","tag-architectural-engineering-cad","tag-bat-houses","tag-bats","tag-earth-week","tag-earth-week-2024","tag-green-team","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}