Bats are being forced out of their normal feeding grounds by disturbance caused by wind turbines, new research suggests. A study found that bats avoided an area of lakes and ponds up to 5km away ...

Every spring, three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and ...

Because bats are small, secretive, feed at night, and are unfamiliar to most people, they are sometimes regarded as rare. On the contrary, they are found throughout the world except for certain ...

Golf courses with reliable water sources tend to attract bats. Chambers says most bats feed on mosquitoes and other insects but the Phyllostomidae family will feed on nectar or other flower parts.

What do bats eat? Different species of bats feed on different foods, but all bats in the UK eat insects! Bats which eat insects are known as insectivores, and they play an important role in our ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new research finds that, despite these seasonal shifts, forest management ...

As they feast, their bodies—covered in fine yellow-brown or gray hairs—become coated in pollen that later cross-pollinates the next flower upon which the bats feed. Lesser long-nosed bats are ...