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4. Are You

5. Are You Batty?

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

9. The Red Bat is one of Virginia’s 14 different kinds of bats. There are about 1000 different kinds of bats in the world.

10. 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 different kinds of bats that live in the United States.

11. Big Brown Bats roosting in a building One Brown Bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in an hour!

12. 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 building

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

16. Pallid bat with a grasshopper.

18. Little Brown Bat

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

20. 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

22. Mexican Free-tail Bats leaving Bracken Cave to hunt for food.

23. The 20 million bats that live in this cave eat about 500,000 pounds of insects each night. Mexican Free-tail Bats leaving Bracken Cave to hunt for food.

25. Opening to Bracken Cave, San Antonio, Texas.

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

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

30. Pallid Bats roosting in a building.

32. Pallid Bats feed on crawling insects and scorpions.

33. They can hear a scorpion walking on the ground!

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

36. Only one of the babies is hers!

38. Red Bat mother with twins.

40. Little Red Flying Fox

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

43. Lyle’s Flying Fox

44. This bat has wings that stretch for more than 3 feet! Lyle’s Flying Fox

46. Mexican Long-tongued Bat with Nose Leaf.

47. With a nose like this, what do you think I eat? Mexican Long-tongued Bat with Nose Leaf

49. Lesser Long-nosed Bat approaching a cactus flower.

50. Notice the pollen on its face. Lesser Long-nosed Bat approaching a cactus flower.

52. This bat really gets into its work! No wonder it has pollen on its head!

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

56. Common Vampire Bat

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

60. Red Bat camouflaged in a tree.

62. Yellow Bat roosting in palm leaves.

64. Peter’s Ghost-faced Bat

66. Largest bat in the United States Western Mastiff Bat

68. Western Pipistrelle Bat

70. America’s largest and smallest bat.

71. Western Pipistrelle Bat on the left, Western Mastiff Bat on the right.

73. World’s Smallest Bat Bumblebee Bat of Thailand.

74. This bat weighs less than a penny! World’s Smallest Bat Bumblebee Bat of Thailand.

77. Spotted Bat

78. Are You Batty?

79. YES!

81. Mathematics & Science Center All pictures courtesy of Bat Conservation International