Heavy gloves should be worn when removing bats from the net. transfer live bats into canvas sacks and later kill them by putting the sacks into a cyanide bottle or chloroform bottle. Since the author was bitten by a bat in Costa Rica and had undergo the rabies treatment, it seems expedient to mention that about 1-percent of the bats which have been tested prove to be rabid. Since bats, unlike all other mammals, show no symptoms of rabies, one must use extreme caution with these animals.