There are a lot of images that come to mind when you think of bats. Long webbed wings, sharp teeth, the dark and cold caves they like to inhabit throughout much of the year. When students at the ...

With traveling on the rise, so is the risk of bringing bed bugs home. In the last few years, the number of bed bugs brought into Extension offices for identification has increased. Bat bugs are also ...

These summer nights are warm and calm. They are very alive with all sorts of critters. The usual nocturnal rabbits, porcupines, foxes and deer move about and feed now. Owls call and search for meals ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Plants Newsletter, with a list of plant-related activities and events for August and links to articles you might have missed. But first, a few words about bats — those flying ...

Members of a third new bat species. A colony of what is apparently a new species of Hipposideros from an abandoned gold mine in Western Kenya. (Photo courtesy of B.D. Patterson / Field Museum) ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat. Scientists studying a common species of these flying mammals found that the bats, while competing ...

Bats are a natural pesticide. A single bat can eat between 6,000 and 8,000 insects in a night, depending on species and feeding habits. Since 2006, many bat populations in the U.S. have collapsed due ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

DENVER — Dracula might have given bats a not-so-good-reputation as creatures that swoop through the night in search of unsuspecting humans to suck their blood. Tina Jackson wants to dispel those myths ...