There are a lot of images that come to mind when you think of bats. Long webbed wings, sharp teeth, the dark and cold caves they like to inhabit throughout much of the year. When students at the ...

So if you’ve lived through the early ’90s you’ve heard the song Girls & Boys by Blur. It seemed like a modern song at the time, but the African bat bug got there long before the band did. In this ...

Members of a third new bat species. A colony of what is apparently a new species of Hipposideros from an abandoned gold mine in Western Kenya. (Photo courtesy of B.D. Patterson / Field Museum) ...

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 ...

Wildlife experts have a solution for mosquito haters: invite bats into your yards. Installing a bat house, experts say, is a safe, effective way to eliminate many of the pesky critters that take over ...