2. Are You Batty?

3. different kinds of bats in the world.
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.
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.

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

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

7. Pallid bat with a grasshopper.

8. Echolocation. Bats are not blind, but use echolocation to aid in flying at night. Bats emit sound waves at sound waves per second. This is at about 8 – 110 kHz (kilohertz) found at the low range of the AM radio band. Our normal hearing range is 30 – 15,000 Hz. We are able to hear some of the bats lower frequency calls.
Credit: MSC

9. Little Brown Bat The bat sends out from 10 - 200 sounds per second.
British noctule bat
Silver-haired Bat
The bat sends out from
sounds per second.
The sounds bounce back and tell it
what insects are around.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Pallid Bats roosting in a building.

16. Pallid Bats feed
on crawling insects and scorpions.

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

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

19. Red Bat mother
with twins.

20. Little Red Flying Fox
It’s not a fox,
but it looks
something
like one.

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

22. Mexican Long-tongued Bat with Nose Leaf.

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

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

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

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

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

28. Common Vampire Bat

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

30. Red Bat camouflaged
in a tree.

31. Yellow Bat roosting in palm leaves.

32. Peter’s Ghost-faced Bat

33. Largest bat
in the United States
Greater Bonneted Bat

34. Western Pipistrelle Bat

35. America’s largest and
smallest bat.

36. Western Pipistrelle Bat on the left,
Greater Bonneted Bat on the right.

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

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

39. Townsend’s Big-eared Bat

40. Townsend’s Big-eared Bat
Spotted Bat

41. Are You Batty?

42. YES!

44. ©MathScience Innovation Center All pictures courtesy of Bat Conservation International