A secret war is waged above farmland every night. Just after dusk, high-stakes aerial combat is fought in the darkness atop the crop canopy. Nature’s air force arrives in waves over crop fields, ...

A hibernating tricolored bat covered in dew. The species is one of five that the state Department of Natural Resources will be studying thanks to a federal grant. (Provided by the Department of ...

For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic ...

Walnuts are one of the highest value crops in California -- bringing in almost $2 billion every year. But keeping the crop free of destructive insects can be costly. Scientists are studying if walnut ...

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 soon and has been "proposed endangered." Credit: ...

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 ...

The University of Coimbra’s grand old Biblioteca Joanina houses both books and bats. tacoekkel For their new book, The Library: A World History, architectural historian James Campbell and photographer ...

A bat forages on the flies attracted to a white-tailed deer. Source: Meredith Palmer, used with permission. There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plague white-tailed deer. There ...

In the mid-1930s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I used to play at Cassiano Park on the corner of South Laredo and Zarzamora streets, where there was a bat roost. It was a huge, boxlike structure that ...

The Halloween decorations around town evoke thoughts about things of fall, autumn-hued leaves, kids in costumes tricking for candy, chrysanthemums, pumpkin-spiced everything, ghost, goblins and bats.