A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk. Most Americans tend to think about bats only ...
Local bat populations are getting attention in the Phoenix area due to a recent mosquito surge ahead of Halloween. The Mexican free-tailed bats living in the Phoenix Bat Cave primarily eat larger prey ...
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 seen swooping over gardens and yards at night are responding directly to insect abundance below, signaling a healthy local ecosystem and providing substantial natural pest control. When these ...