With more than 1,400 species worldwide, bats are linchpins of ecosystems, serving as pest controllers, pollinators, and forest builders. When most people think of bats, images of Halloween, haunted ...

It is estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 species of invertebrates — like bees, beetles, butterflies, moths and mosquitoes — serve as pollinators worldwide. Around 2,000 mammals, birds, reptiles and ...

Did you know that 17 different types of bats live in Northern California? Some are pollinators; others are insect eaters. Both are important to our environment. Much has been written over the last few ...

The $1.53 trillion U.S. agriculture and associated industries are facing little-known threats worth billions to their bottom lines from climate change, wind power and a fungal disease decimating bats ...

In many cultures, extending back millennia, bats have been associated with the devil, witchcraft and evil-doers. Their nocturnal activities have spurned countless myths about malevolent behavior: ...

Durian is economically important for local livelihoods in Indonesia. Our study investigated the identity of pollinators of semi-wild durian and subsequently estimated the economic contribution of ...

PHOENIX — The endangered Mexican long-nosed bat has been detected in Arizona through the utilization of citizen science from residents in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, Bat ...