🎵 Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo 🎵, who you gonna call? Pest Busters! Welcome back to our daily dose of batweek ! 🦇
Did you know that many bats can eat up to (or even more than) their body weight in insect...
Bat week continues!
🌿Why Bats Matter
Did you know? A single bat can eat thousands of insects each night—helping farmers, forests, and gardens thrive! 🌾✨
Protecting bats means protecting the biodive...
🦇✨ Ready for an adventure that makes a difference?
Next summer, YOU can be part of the BatPack initiative led by our Field Site Director, Dr. Rada Petric! Strap on a pack, hit the Appalachian Trail, ...
Big news for bats!
We've been funding a project that's testing the use of a probiotic "cocktail" to counter the fungus that has been decimating bat populations around the globe.
Empirical evide...
SOUND UP 🎤🦇You probably know that bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt in the dark, but they can also make other sounds, like the high-pitched chirps you can hear from this Mexican Free-Tailed B...
October 30, 2025
Tricolored bats are basically a tiny, winged sunset. Tricolored bats are the smallest bat found in Indiana. They are a true overachiever being the first ones out at sunset at work eating 🦟. It's a my...
Tragically, bats face mounting threats due to climate change, habitat fragmentation and loss, disease, invasive species, illegal hunting, and other stressors. More than 200 bat species around the worl...
Yes, it’s spooky season and the bat is one of the holiday’s more popular mascots, but since it is Bat Week (Oct 24-31), I wanted to highlight some of the amazingly helpful things our bat friends do. A...