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 pups can ...

Thanks to support from a Christine Stevens Wildlife Award, we were able to test the effectiveness of providing artificial roost structures (i.e., bat boxes) to minimize the negative impacts to bats ...

If it’s successful, upwards of a thousand bats could fit in the box. “The reason why I would want to put (a bat box) on campus is that a small bat can eat 1,000 insects a night. They usually ...

DON'T MISS: Only scary thing about bats is the rate of their population decline Bat boxes can help alleviate habitat loss threatening many of the troubled species in Canada, especially in the ...