People want to attract bats to their properties for their importance to the environment and pest control advantages. These mysterious, and somewhat feared, winged mammals are also essential ...

Two little eyes peer up at a tiny wooden box, eagerly searching for signs of bats. My 3-year-old daughter does this several times a week even though I’ve told her it’d be months before a bat likely ...

Bats, the tiny fury mammals that flutter through the night sky, are misunderstood and could use better accommodations — both in the public’s mind and in our backyards. So say Christopher Rannefors and ...

When most people think of bats, the last thing they think of are ways to keep them around their property. Yet, that’s what some Pennington County 4-H students were working on Saturday -- building bat ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Collaborating under the name Let's Re-Make, Urbana artists Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom make environmental issues part of their art practice. One of their latest projects brings ...

MEADVILLE ― In 2000, Terry Lobdell saw something he could never forget. With a flashlight, he peeked into one of the first bat houses he ever made attached to a post in his backyard. Thirty little ...

Though cute in conception, the design for the "Mus" by Estudio Estres is symptomatic of man's endangerment of bats. An animal of fundamental importance to the environment, "Mus" represents the lost ...