There is no such thing as too many bats. 📷 Ingo Arndt/Foto Natura/Minden Pictures

THANK YOU, BATS! A recent study found that bats are helping fight back against the invasive spotted lanternfly—just by doing what they do best: eating bugs! 🪰.Researchers studying bats in the eastern U.S. found DNA of lanternflies in eastern red bat and big brown bat guano. 💩🔬

It's What's It Wednesday so. what's it?. 📷 Christian Ziegler/Minden Pictures

BCI was proud to host the third Meeting of the NE Mexico Agave Restoration Initiative in Monterrey where 58 partners and collaborators agreed to formalize an official collaborative network dedicated to the restoration of agaves in the region. More partners protecting agaves means

Pretty sure being adorable is a vampire bat strategy. 😍. 🦇 hairy-legged vampire bat.📷 Jennifer Barros

A bat-chelor colony of 19 male Rodrigues flying foxes lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as part of conservation efforts for this Critically Endangered species. Learn about these promiscuous, social bats, and the efforts to re-populate them, in our latest blog post. 🦇

"Nooo, I am the night"

Let's celebrate Pollinator Week with a win, shall we? Thanks to eDNA, hummingbird feeders, and community scientists, Mexican long-nosed bats have been discovered to migrate into Arizona!

Happy Pollinator Week! 🌸 DYK bats pollinate banana, agave, hemp, jackfruit, durian, dragonfruit, balsa, guava, and coconut?.Despite popular belief, bats don't pollinate avocado, dates, figs, peaches, mangoes, cloves, or cashews. But that doesn't mean their other ecosystem

Which of the National Forests we've worked in have you been to? 🌲

Arizona's Tonto National Forest is filled with saquaros, mines, and bats! In partnership with the National Forest Service, our work supports many bat species, including cave myotis.

Throwing it back, BCI has been working with the Forest Service for decades. Back in 2007, BCI worked with NFS to install artificial hollow tree roosts to support the population of Rafinesque's big-eared bats.

What are you doing 𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓? 🍿We recommend you grab some popcorn, flip on YouTube, and watch the short film “Bat Boy” for free! Check out this award-winning 20-minute story about a young man on the autism spectrum who works to uncover why the beloved bats near his house go.

Will rappel for bats. 🪢 Our SubT team is always diving into the depths to survey and install wildlife-friendly closures. Townsend's big-eared bats are their official mascot because they love these habitats. Learn more about how and why we do this work on our website under

Continuing National Forest Week as we look back at winter's hibernacula surveys in Gifford-Pinchot National Forest, Washington. Knowing where bats hibernate helps inform decisions leading to their protection. 🫶

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🥾 Kicking off National Forest Week with our habitat protection and restoration work in Gila National Forest. Our Restoration Team will work with the NFS to inventory, survey, and carry out extensive restoration projects in areas impacted by wildfire. 🔥

When National Cave Week is ending but National Forest week is coming up. Tell us your favorite cave or national forest! Bonus points if you know what bats live there! 🌲🦇. 📷 Photo taken during subterranean survey near Mount Hood National Forest by Rachel Harper

As we wave goodbye to National Cave Week, we wanted to share this blog from The Nature Conservancy highlighting some of the other (not as cool 🦇) species that can be found in caves!