International Bat Week will be observed Oct. 24 to 31, 2025, including educational events and outings in Wisconsin.
Bats are widely misunderstood. They are not blind and they are not rodents. In fact, most bats see very well and are more closely related to primates and humans than they are to mice or rats. They are ...
The Clendening Marina near Freeport is home during the summer months to one of the largest known populations of little brown bats in Ohio. The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, which owns the ...
With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence? Perhaps ...
My friends might say that I may sometimes have batty ideas. Just now, however, I do have my mind on bats, real ones that occur in Southeast Alaska. There are now six species of bat known to be ...
I often used to see little brown bats swooping over my yard. Known scientifically as Myositis lucifugus, this animal is well named, for “lucifugus” is Latin for “shunning daylight,” which is ...
Millie Mine, located in Iron Mountain, Michigan, is home to one of the largest bat colonies in North America. Little brown bats and big brown bats, both insectivores, inhabit the mine, with the little ...
Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. Researchers from UC Santa Cruz analyzed infection data ...
CLENDENING LAKE ‒ Humans aren't the only ones who enjoy spending the summer at Harrison County's Clendening Lake. So do little brown bats ‒ more than a thousand of them. The bats, which on average ...
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