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 ...

The surviving bats need a warm and secure place to roost during the day in summer. A bat box is a simple and effective way to provide such roosts. But bat boxes have varied designs, and little is ...

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 ...