Bats are incredible creatures! They eat bugs, disperse seeds, and help pollinate plants. That's why it's important to protect them, by building them their own home called a bat box! Grab an adult to ...

We’re admitting it from the get-go, we are batty and we’re proud of it. And of course Austin is known for it’s accelerated bat population. Most of us are happy to just let them be wild and free, but ...

At center, Molly Brown of Cornell Cooperative Extension teaches third-grade students in Mary Plumb’s class at Fenner Elementary School in Falconer how to build a bat box. Along with making the boxes, ...

Why Build a Bat House? You might be surprised: bats don't always live in caves. Some bats spend winter months in caves, but most bats spend summers in trees, under bridges or in old buildings, where ...

“Quite a few people put up bat houses around here,” said Ross Winton, wildlife biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in Jerome. “They put them up as roost boxes during the summer, ...

American bats are in danger — due to the spreading of a disease called white-nose syndrome, which has reached Michigan this year, bats are have been dying at a rate of about a million every year. But ...