Vincent

This may be a little bit difficult to figure out what this is, so I'll tell you. It's an outdoor umbrella for deck or patio furniture. And hiding up in the seam of the umbrella is a little bat. I'll call him Vincent. This is not exactly what you want to see when you open up the umbrella on a sunny day. I'm not opposed to bats, in fact, I think they are cute and provide a valuable service by eating lots of bugs each night. However, one that is this close to the house could easily make its way inside just as the door was opened. And I worry a little bit about rabies. Did you see that episode of "The Office" where Meredith was bitten by a bat? Well, then you know what I'm talking about.

Oh, and before you complain that a bat is not a bug, note that the blog is called Bugs Etc. So, Vincent the Bat falls in the "Etc." category.