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Bats are organic pest control

Merlin Tuttle shares bats with David Letterman

Texas Legacy

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Resources

White-Nose Syndrome

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is caused by a fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (formerly known as Geomyces destructans). It was first recorded from a photo taken in a cave in Schoharie County, New York in 2006.

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Exaggerated Disease Warnings

Merlin’s Opinion Letter, “Fear of Bats and its Consequences,” was published in the Journal of Bat Research and Conservation. This is a thoroughly documented report on how exaggerated disease claims against bats have harmed bats and efforts to conserve them over the past 47 years—something all who care about bats should know.

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Rabies in Perspective

Millions of tourists have watched free-tailed bat emergences from the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas over the past 35 years without anyone ever having been harmed. Signs warn visitors not to handle the bats.

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Wind Energy Neglecting Bats

The cumulative impact of wind power facilities in killing migratory bats threatens to become an environmental crisis that cannot be ignored. By 2012, more than 600,000 bats were being killed annually, and the number grows each year (Hayes 2013).

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Essential Bat Values

Insect-eating bats save farmers approximately $23 billion in annual agricultural losses in the United States alone. Millions of free-tailed bats from Bracken Cave, Texas eat more than 100 tons of insects nightly, intercepting billions of migrant pests before they can lay eggs, a huge savings to farmers.

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Fun Bat Facts

Nearly 1,400 kinds of bats account for a fifth of all mammal species, ranging from tiny bumblebee bats, weighing less than a U.S. penny to giant flying foxes with nearly six-foot wingspans.

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Photos

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This is a rarely seen species that is widespread throughout much of Southeast Asia. In Thailand these bats roost in […]

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Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta) in flight.

This cave shelters the world’s largest remaining bat colony, some 10 – 20 million bats. They consume 100 to 200 […]

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Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging from Bracken Cave.

Black woolly bat (Kerivoula furva) capturing an oriental leafworm moth (Spodoptera litura) in Taiwan. This is one of Australasia’s most […]

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Black woolly bat (Kerivoula furva)

An adult male Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) with his cheek pouches full of figs in Kenya. These bats […]

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Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi)

A Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) pollinating organ pipe cactus in the Sonoran Desert of northwestern Mexico.

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Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae)

An adult male Chapin’s free-tailed bat (Chaerephon chapini) in Zimbabwe, Africa. The crest is hidden beneath body fur except during […]

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Chapin’s free-tailed bat (Chaerephon chapini)

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