The image above is a spectogram of an evening bat call from the spring 2023 Evanston Campus Bat Walk. Since bat calls emit at a frequency too high for humans to hear, bats are identified according to ...

Why You Shouldn’t Fear Bats Historically, bats have been cast as terrifying night stalkers. This, however, is a misleading portrayal. “I’ve personally noticed,” says Erin Cord, community engagement ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

If you've got pesky bats in your roof tiles or house, you only have a few days to get rid of them without needing a permit. Bat maternity season runs from April 15 through Aug. 15, and it's a period ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with Central Lakes College, has discovered a bat species new to Minnesota: the evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis). “It’s very exciting ...

The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife rescued an evening bat in Bonita Springs suspected of being “cold-stunned.” Amid the drastic temperature drop throughout most of Florida, many of the ...

The sighting of a bat has been known to make people run for cover, screaming and shielding themselves-fearful of the bite from above. But bats that suck blood for a living-such as the vampire ...

North American bats have been disappearing for decades, and scientists are still sorting out why. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Grant Blankenship takes us to a swamp in the middle of Georgia where ...

On a clear September night along the San Marcos River in central Texas, a handful of people in headlamps gathered around a small, noisy creature: an evening bat. Melissa Donnelly, a science specialist ...