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If you see bats flying over your house at night, it often means a good thing for your yard

Bats seen swooping over gardens and yards at night are responding directly to insect abundance below, signaling a healthy local ecosystem and providing substantial natural pest control. When these ...
ecoportal.net

Solar panels were built to catch the sun, but after dark they quietly fool the bats into chasing something that was never really there

On a warm summer night, in the middle of a field of solar panels, something unexpected was unfolding in the dark. Bats, dozens of them, were swirling low over the rows of glass, diving and weaving the ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

To escape hungry bats, these flying beetles create an ultrasound 'illusion'

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...
AOL

If You See Bats Flying Near Your House at Night, This Is What It Actually Means, According to a Wildlife Expert

Bats tend to have a bad rep with people (well, maybe outside the goth community, anyway). These creatures of the night are frequently accused of sucking blood, spreading rabies, and generally giving ...