We are better off with bats. These bat facts will make you rethink the unsung heroes of the night and learn why you should ...

A secret war is waged above farmland every night. Just after dusk, high-stakes aerial combat is fought in the darkness atop the crop canopy. Nature’s air force arrives in waves over crop fields, ...

Bats provide a service worth an estimated US $1bn (£649m) globally by controlling pests on corn crops, a study has suggested. Scientists carried out a series of experiments to assess the economic and ...

There are many types of sounds bats hate, from leaf blowers and construction tools to high-pitched screams and predator calls ...

Researchers studied how forces such as volatile market conditions and technological substitutes affect the value of pest control services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats on cotton production in ...

Despite their sometimes negative image - an image that is undeserved - the various species of bats native to Florida are among our best allies in pest control. I was along the shoreline of Doctors ...

In the mid-1930s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I used to play at Cassiano Park on the corner of South Laredo and Zarzamora streets, where there was a bat roost. It was a huge, boxlike structure that ...

A bat forages on the flies attracted to a white-tailed deer. Source: Meredith Palmer, used with permission. There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plague white-tailed deer. There ...

The Halloween decorations around town evoke thoughts about things of fall, autumn-hued leaves, kids in costumes tricking for candy, chrysanthemums, pumpkin-spiced everything, ghost, goblins and bats.

Ladies and gentlemen, the bat has left the building. Finally. The rouge bat that disrupted Saturday's Marquette vs. Providence game is now out of the Bradley Center after being captured at 3:15 p.m.

A bat forages on the flies attracted to a white-tailed deer. Source: Meredith Palmer, used with permission. There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plague white-tailed deer. There ...