Are You Batty?

The Red Bat is one of Virginia’s 14 different kinds of bats.

There are about 1000 different kinds of bats in the world.

There are 45 differentkinds of bats that livein the United States.

Big Brown Bats roosting in a building

One Brown Bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in an hour!

Big Brown Bats roosting in a Big Brown Bats roosting in a buildingbuilding

Gray Bats can eat as many as 3000 insects in one night!

Pallid bat with a grasshopper.

Credit: MSC

Little Brown Bat

The bat sends out from 10 - 200 sounds per second. The sounds bounce back and tell it what insects are around.

Silver-haired Bat

British noctule bat

Mexican Free-tail Batsleaving Bracken Cave to hunt for food.

The 20 million bats that live in this caveeat about 500,000 pounds of insects each night.

Mexican Free-tail Batsleaving Bracken Cave to hunt for food.

Opening to Bracken Cave, San Antonio, Texas.

Gray Bats roosting in a cave. In the winter, the bats go deeper into the cave to hibernate.

The temperature in the cave, all year, is 57 degrees Fahrenheit.

Pallid Bats roosting in a building.

Pallid Bats feedon crawling insects and scorpions.

They can hear a scorpion walking on the ground!

Mexican Free-tail Bat mother Mexican Free-tail Bat mother surrounded by baby bats.surrounded by baby bats.

Red Bat mother with twins.

Little Red Flying Fox

It’s not a fox, but it looks something like one.

This bat has wings that stretch for more than 3 feet!

Lyle’s Flying Fox

Mexican Long-tongued Bat with Nose Leaf.

With a nose like this, what do you think I eat?

Mexican Long-tongued Bat with Nose Leaf

Lesser Long-nosed Batapproaching a cactus flower.

Notice the pollen on its face.

Lesser Long-nosed Batapproaching a cactus flower.

This bat really gets into its work!

No wonder it has pollen on its head!

Many types of cactus Many types of cactus depend on bats to depend on bats to pollinate their flowers.pollinate their flowers.

Common Vampire Bat

The Silver-haired Bat likes to roost in tree bark.

Red Bat camouflaged in a tree.

Yellow Bat roosting in palm leaves.

Peter’s Ghost-faced Bat

Largest bat in the United StatesGreater Bonneted Bat

Western Pipistrelle Bat

America’s largest and smallest bat.

Western Pipistrelle Bat on the left,Great Bonneted Bat on the right.

World’s Smallest BatBumblebee Bat of Thailand.

This bat weighs less than a penny!

World’s Smallest BatBumblebee Bat of Thailand.

Townsend’s

Townsend’s

Spotted

Are You Batty?

YES!

Mathematics & Science Center

All pictures courtesy of Bat Conservation International