With traveling on the rise, so is the risk of bringing bed bugs home. In the last few years, the number of bed bugs brought into Extension offices for identification has increased. Bat bugs are also ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Often small and flying at night, the more than 160 bat species found in the Amazon can be challenging to identify in the field by researchers and ...

Weighing about the same as a dollar coin with a wing span approaching 10 inches, the northern long-eared bat emerges each spring from Appalachian mountain caves to live in the trees of South Carolina.

Being bugged by pesky mosquitos or moths? Want some help reducing their numbers? Encourage bats to hang around. Often having the undeserved reputation of nighttime villain, these furry, winged mammals ...

Massachusetts biologist Elise Stanmyer scrambled into the dark of an abandoned World War II military building. She whispered so she wouldn’t wake its winged residents. Her headlamp illuminated one ...

The swarms of bats that swoop in around Halloween make cute decorations. But they have nothing on the chirping flying mammals that swarm in the night skies. Despite their reputation as creepy little ...