Tag: Bats

Species in areas affected by hurricanes are often seen to co-evolve with the disruption to the landscape, but that doesn’t mean they’re not affected by them. TWS member Jessica Nagel...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $100,000 prize to individuals who develop new ideas that might eradicate or mitigate white-nose syndrome (WNS) as part of a white-nose...

The increasing use of artificial light in and around caves can have a negative effect on cave-dwelling bats. “[Light] has very traumatic influences on all kinds of wildlife,” said Holger...

Bat maternity colonies will pick up and change forest areas when the quality of their home trees deteriorate, according to new research. This discovery, the first to report the movement...

Wind energy is one way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but it can also impact wildlife. A new report, “Impacts to Wildlife of Wing Energy Sting and Operation in the...

An English county is pioneering the use of street lighting intended to reduce impacts on bats. The Worcestershire County Council has installed red LED lights along a crossing area on...

Bats can bounce echolocation signals off leaves — using them like mirrors — to detect stationary insects to prey on. “It’s a pretty neat and pretty cool mechanism,” said Inga...

Bats are hard to find. They’re small (some weigh less than three pennies), they fly by night and hide during the day, but perhaps the most challenging part is that...

TWS members and bat biologists Kristi Confortin and Katherine Etchison were recently spotlighted in the local television news in Raleigh, North Carolina for their contributions to a bat blitz. A...

The Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society, along with the Alabama Bat Working Group, will host a bats and forest workshop on September 10 at Cleburne Mountain Center in Heflin,...