URBANA, Ill. - Ever thought about buying or building a bat box to help bats? Think carefully about the design and where you put it, University of Illinois researchers say. Here's why: Bats and their ...

Bat boxes are potential death traps for the winged mammals during heatwaves, new research warns. They can overheat and die in bat boxes during extreme hot weather, say scientists. They explained that ...

A York County Boy Scout is helping to save the endangered little brown bat by distributing bat houses for the tiny mammals to winter over. “Bats are a very integral and important part of the ...

URBANA, Ill. — Imagine moving into a new house just to discover it has no insulation. That’s what life can be like for a bat box resident. Bat boxes, a kind of artificial roost, are a simple and ...

A Boy Scout’s Eagle project has resulted in nine new bat boxes for the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. Elias Pollard came up with the idea as a result of doing volunteer work at the Nature Preserve, ...

Flying night dwellers could soon call the University of Montana campus home. Senior ecology student Solomon Ziegert is in the final stages of installing his “bat box” for the ethnobotany garden ...

With shovels and power drills in hand, about a dozen volunteers at the Brookside Preserve in Freeport on Saturday worked to address a persistent pest problem by inviting a natural predator: bats. In ...

A Pine-Richland High School senior and longtime Girl Scout’s latest project has volunteers going batty for conservation. Lauren Schwab of Troop 58011 in Wexford assembled bat roosting boxes for the ...

Yes, bat boxes covering London’s clean air zone cameras can be legally removed If Your Time is short A spokesperson for the Bat Conservation Trust said bat boxes can be removed with the correct ...

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