A Few Hardy Little Bats Hang On

June 14, 2011

Over the past month or so, northerners have emerged from hibernation, as have the bats that share their territory. But not many bats are leaving their hibernacula (wintering places) this spring. In past years when I left my own hibernacula in Florida and New York to usher in the warm weather at my house in Vermont, I was greeted by bats sweeping through the clearing, and sometimes through the house. …

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Where Are The Bats?

June 26, 2009

Our bats are missing in action. The small clearing behind our Vermont vacation house is a neighborhood diner for little brown bats, the area’s most common species. Two to six of the creatures customarily show up at dusk every spring and summer evening, doing their part to keep a lid on the local population of flying insects. A little brown bat can eat its own weight in bugs every night. …

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