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The hope is little brown bats will begin to populate the preserve and reduce the number of mosquitos, said one club official.
Your kids are home from school, and you desperately need some time to do laundry/pay bills/chill out. The fix? Plunk ‘em down ...
Though bats keep the insect population in check, you don’t want them living under your roof. Here’s what to do if you find ...
Each spring, millions of Mexican free-tailed bats fly from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but they weren't always welcome ...
The UF bat houses' population dropped to less than 100,000 bats. Experts say the bats population are recovering, and mating ...
As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.” ...
The downside of the spring warmup — the emergence of biting mosquitoes and other flying pests — would be much worse without ...
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Bat legislation in Texas
Texas lawmakers heard testimony on a bill that would provide new protections for bats. SB 1285, filed by Austin Democrat Sarah Eckhardt, would restrict how and when bats can be removed from buildings.
What's inside them that might determine how far they fly? What has been slathered onto them that might impact how slick they are? In that sense, the sudden furor over so-called torpedo bats is ...
Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a potential solution ...
Even now, as teams track exit velocity and barrel rates with high-speed cameras and Statcast data, it’s not hard to imagine a world where players choose from bat models optimized for their swing ...