Bats are a precious, but unheralded friend of farmers, providing consistent crop protection. Take away the colonies of pest killers and insect control costs would explode across farmland.

Three of Arkansas’s 16 species of bats are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A fourth species is expected to be added to the list soon and has been “proposed endangered.” The ...

Natural pest controllers, pollinators and contributors to a healthy ecosystem, here's how to lure more bats into your garden.

“Bats in the attic typically pose very little direct threat to people,” says Meg Pearson, the Training Manager at Critter ...

A recent scientific paper on the economic value of bats to agriculture estimated that bats provided nontoxic pest-control services totaling $3.7 billion to $53 billion per year. This study did not ...

It not only threatens to drive some bat species extinct — it could also cause significant insect pest problems. Every year bats provide billions of dollars’ worth of free pest control by eating tons ...

In reality, the more than 1,300 bat species are vitally important to ecosystems and economies around the world: They perform pest control, they pollinate, and they disperse seeds. The 140,000 bat ...