Bats such as the common noctule consume pest insects over intensively managed arable land and thereby support sustainable ...

Why You Shouldn’t Fear Bats Historically, bats have been cast as terrifying night stalkers. This, however, is a misleading ...

A secret war is waged above farmland every night. Just after dusk, high-stakes aerial combat is fought in the darkness atop the crop canopy. Nature’s air force arrives in waves over crop fields, ...

A hibernating tricolored bat covered in dew. The species is one of five that the state Department of Natural Resources will be studying thanks to a federal grant. (Provided by the Department of ...

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 ...

In the mid-1930s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I used to play at Cassiano Park on the corner of South Laredo and Zarzamora streets, where there was a bat roost. It was a huge, boxlike structure that ...

The study recorded a 59% increase in corn earworm larvae in areas where bats were not present Bats provide a service worth an estimated US $1bn (£649m) globally by controlling pests on corn crops, a ...

A threat posed to bats by a fatal disease also represents a threat to U.S. farms, according to researchers who want farmers and consumers to better appreciate the contribution the creatures make. Bats ...

Bats provide a service worth an estimated US $1bn (£649m) globally by controlling pests on corn crops, a study has suggested. Scientists carried out a series of experiments to assess the economic and ...