Services provided by Mother Nature, such as pest control from insect-eating bats, are affected by market forces like most anything else in the economy, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study ...

The typical cost to remove bats from a home is between $227 and $690, with a national average cost of $452. Bat removal costs will depend on the size of the colony, the location and accessibility of ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

On a clear September night along the San Marcos River in central Texas, a handful of people in headlamps gathered around a small, noisy creature: an evening bat. Melissa Donnelly, a science specialist ...

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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Living in Florida, we, unfortunately, know just how pesky insects can be — especially this time of year. But rather than ramping up on screens and bug spray, one ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Students at St. Marys Elementary School will remain out of the building for the rest of the week due to a bat infestation ...

We are better off with bats. These bat facts will make you rethink the unsung heroes of the night and learn why you should ...