Native Americans used long-handled dipper gourds to construct the first purple martin houses. Their diet consists entirely of flying insects. A juvenile purple martin can feed on 100 insects per day. Bats that inhabit the buildings of East Texas are non-migratory. It is estimated that bats consume 6,000 -18,000 metric tons of insects annually in the state of Texas.
Bats eat the equivalent their body weight in insects nightly.
Butterflies are equipped with a finely tuned and highly sensitive sense of smell. They can identify their favorite plants from miles away and travel for hours to taste the nectar of the flowers. Feed on liquids, such as nectar and fermenting tree sap. Are valuable pollinators of flowers.