Officials: Bats have returned to Pennsylvania cavern system
HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — Officials at a Pennsylvania cave formation say bats have been observed hibernating there for the first time since a fungus nearly wiped out the state’s bat population. Lincoln...
View ArticleHairy tongues help some bats drink up
Animals have evolved all manner of adaptations to get the nutrients they need. For nectar-feeding bats, long snouts and tongues let them dip in and out of flowers while hovering in mid-air. To help the...
View ArticleSanctuary for the protection of bats in northern Mexico
In Mexico, there are 138 different species of bats, 38 of them are categorized “at risk” by the Mexican norm. Bats are efficient to combat large amounts of harmful insects considered as agricultural...
View ArticleMichigan Bat Monitoring Program—2017 Acoustic Report
A Report Submitted to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources By Giorgia Auteri and Rob Mies Organization for Bat Conservation Pontiac, MI 48342 22 December 2017 Click here to read the report!...
View ArticleLONG DAYS IN THE URBAN BAT OUTREACH
Amanda Bevan is busy and for her, that’s a good thing. As the Organization for Bat Conservation’s Urban Bat Project Leader, Bevan educates city folks about the importance of bats, and if she’s busy, it...
View ArticleScientists discover two new species of dog-faced bat
Flitting swiftly through the darkness above the tropical forest canopy in Central and South America, a group of cute little bats with dog-like faces have long been hiding a big secret. Now, their...
View ArticleNotorious Bat Killer Found to Have a Weak Link
Doses of ultraviolet light destroy the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, scientists say. Mysterious cases of white-nose syndrome plague thousands of bats each year, frosting their snouts in...
View ArticleLake Home & Cabin Show returns to Schaumburg
The Lake Home & Cabin Show, an annual three-day public event that showcases the lifestyle of lake home and cabin living, will be back at the Schaumburg Convention Center Friday through Sunday, Jan....
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Hang out with these Michigan bats 24/7
Bats get a bad rap. It seems everyone has a very strong reaction to the furry fliers. Either you think they are the coolest little creatures around or the thought of them gives you a panic attack....
View ArticleDeclaration of Interdependence: Hanukkah is Unity in Diversity
2017 is coming to a close—a year of staggering political debacles further catalyzing human and ecological catastrophes. Convenience-culture has kick-started a new geologic age. Transnational...
View ArticleSUNY-ESF professor is trying to find WNS cure
Halloween is long past, but Shannon Farrell, a professor of environmental and forest biology at SUNY-ESF, still has bats on her mind. Farrell and her students at the State University of New York...
View ArticleGM scrap becomes conservation treasure
GRAND BLANC TWP. – Local bats will now have a safe habitat to raise their young, thanks to Miguel Donnelly, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 238 and a senior at Grand Blanc High School. An avid...
View ArticleWildlife and Wind Farms, Conflicts and Solutions
By Rob Mies (Executive Director, Organization for Bat Conservation) It is imperative that we find cleaner ways to produce energy. It is also critically important that we do this with the least...
View ArticleBats Find Protected Homes in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) – Through its ongoing work to conserve the best, and sometimes last, examples of the state’s natural landscape, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) has...
View ArticleHow Baby Bats Develop Their Dialects
It takes a village to teach a bat how to communicate. Baby Egyptian fruit bats learn calls from their mothers, but research now shows that they can learn new dialects, or the pitch of their...
View ArticleHow WNS Helped Made Bats Cute Again
Let’s face it: Bats have an image problem. Since the time of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, these stealthy shadows have been tied up with images of the dark and demonic, of vampiric seduction, of blood-sucking...
View ArticleScientists test probiotics for bats against WNS
Canadian scientists are racing to test a remedy that they hope will save bats from a deadly fungus that has already killed millions of the winged mammals across the continent. “We are feeling a real...
View ArticleBracken Cave bats a sight to behold
When it’s time to hunt, the bats of Bracken Cave know what to do. As the sun sets over the cave, nestled within a 1,500-acre preserve northeast of San Antonio, where suburban development begins to...
View ArticleTHOUSANDS OF BATS SLAUGHTERED END UP ON EBAY & ETSY
Bats are being killed in Southeast Asia specifically to sell to American dead-bat enthusiasts, much of the supply on eBay and Etsy. Between mid-2000 and 2013, the United States imported 114,927 bats. A...
View ArticleBats are key pollinators for durian production
Camera trap footage has shown, for the first time, that a threatened bat species in Malaysia is an important pollinator of durian trees (Durio zibethinus). Past research in other parts of the world has...
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