Three of Arkansas's 16 species of bats are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A fourth species is expected to be added soon and has been "proposed endangered." Credit: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 29, 2020) The terrible reputation with which bats are commonly saddled — especially now, because of their association with the origins of the family of coronaviruses — is ...

A bat forages on the flies attracted to a white-tailed deer. Source: Meredith Palmer, used with permission. There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plague white-tailed deer. There ...

Vineyard with integrated pest management near Káptalantóti, in the Balaton Uplands region, Hungary. Land use change and the increased agrochemical use associated with agricultural intensification ...

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 ...