Think Bats in Your Yard Are Bad? Here Is Why You Actually Want Them Around

Pexels Most people spot a bat swooping through the evening sky and instinctively step back inside. The reputation bats carry ...
CounterPunch

Why Bats Matter to Desert Ecosystems

Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on ...
Business Insider

Bats that help make tequila are endangered. Here's how climate change is coming for your margarita.

Growing tequila's main ingredient could get much harder for farmers, as climate change threatens one of its key pollinators — bats. Weber Azul agave, the main ingredient in tequila, is a plant native ...
CNN

One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and bees

Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch ...
KSAT

Celebrate Pollinator Week and help save the bees that pollinate our food

SAN ANTONIO – This is Pollinator Week — a time to celebrate birds, bats, bees, beetles and butterflies. Even if you’re not a bat or bug person, your life is still directly affected by pollinators ...
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Why the world would fall apart without bats

With more than 1,400 species worldwide, bats are linchpins of ecosystems, serving as pest controllers, pollinators, and forest builders. When most people think of bats, images of Halloween, haunted ...