October is Bat Appreciation Month!

Townsend’s Big-eared Bat – Wolf Hollow photo

This is from Wolf Hollow’s “Hollow Happenings”

With Halloween just around the corner, our minds may be on ghosts and haunted houses full of bats hanging in dark attics. What better time of year to celebrate Bat Appreciation Month? These often misunderstood flying mammals are much more helpful than many people realize.

Bats are responsible for chowing down on a huge number of irritating insects – eating up to as much as their own body weight in insects nightly. It may not seem like much, but can add up to thousands of insects every night! Bats love to eat mosquitoes, gnats, moths, and fruit flies – all common insects that tend to be very bothersome to most people. (continue reading this story and more at this link)

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