Just in time for Halloween, Bat Appreciation Week is coming. Celebrated Oct. 24 through Oct. 31, Bat Appreciation Week is an international celebration to raise awareness for bat conservation. There ...

Leroy Davis writes: ''We live in a somewhat rural area with small ponds nearby. Obviously there is a large population of mosquitoes along with other insects, some good and some not so good. I ...

Bats eat insects, a lot of them, every night. In Florida, there are 13 native bat species. It is illegal to kill bats in Florida. Just in time for Halloween, Bat Appreciation Week is coming.

Bats gather to feast as nocturnal insects fly through mountain passes in the Pyrenees each autumn, new research shows. Bats gather to feast as nocturnal insects fly through mountain passes in the ...

When I was a kid, we had a book called “Animals Nobody Loves,” in which the author, Ronald Rood, introduced readers to “nature’s most misunderstood and maligned creatures” such as rats, snakes, ...

Next year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show will feature a garden demonstrating how to support bats. Melanie Hick’s The Nocturnal Garden for the Bat Conservation Trust highlights ideal plants. Hick states: ...

Common big-eared bats are remarkable hunters. In 2019, bat ecologist Inga Geipel and her colleagues reported that the roughly two-inch-long creatures seem to use leaves like “acoustic mirrors” to ...

It is generally believed that, for millions of years, bats and the insects they hunt at night have adapted to each other in an evolutionary arms race to become better at finding or avoiding each other ...