Sorry to jump in so often... but they do like getting close to humans sometimes. Like, when a human is tending a task with little movement. Skeeters are drawn to the human and bats love to eat skeeters. I enjoyed the close company of bats many times at my camp when tending the BBQ with a flashlight on the deck. With the bats eating skeeters by the hundreds, I was subject to only dozens of skeeters bites. Felt the bat wind on my neck many times.