URBANA, Ill. — Imagine moving into a new house just to discover it has no insulation. That’s what life can be like for a bat box resident. Bat boxes, a kind of artificial roost, are a simple and ...
URBANA, Ill. – Imagine if you had to catch every bite of your dinner with your mouth, while flying, in the dark. You’d be exhausted, and probably pretty hungry. Though some bats go for sedentary ...
Flying night dwellers could soon call the University of Montana campus home. Senior ecology student Solomon Ziegert is in the final stages of installing his “bat box” for the ethnobotany garden ...
From habitat loss to disease, bat species across Canada are facing multiple threats. As cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared and bats are losing their roosts. In ...
A Pine-Richland High School senior and longtime Girl Scout’s latest project has volunteers going batty for conservation. Lauren Schwab of Troop 58011 in Wexford assembled bat roosting boxes for the ...