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Bats provide humans with some direct benefits, at the cost of some disadvantages. Bat dung has been mined as guano from caves and used as fertiliser. Bats consume insect pests, reducing the need for pesticides and other insect management measures. Some bats are also predators of mosquitoes, suppressing the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
Aeroecology is the discipline for studying how airborne life forms utilize and interact with other biotic and abiotic components of the atmosphere. [1] [2] The aerosphere is viewed as habitat [3] and the way that organisms respond to and take advantage of the dynamic aeroscape has relevance to the ecology, evolution, and conservation of many of the world's bird, bat, insect, and plant species.
Nycteribiidae is a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea.Together with their close relatives the Streblidae, they are known as "bat flies".As the latter do not seem to be a monophyletic group, it is conceivable that bat flies cannot be united into a single family.
[48] [49] Big brown bats tolerate cold weather fairly well, [46] although they can be negatively affected by major changes in temperature. [45] It is fairly common for some hibernating big brown bats to awaken temporarily and seek warmer shelter, locate water, and even mate. [8] [45] Big brown bats come out of hibernation in the spring. [50]
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The general assembly of North Carolina considered a bill in 2007 that would have made Rafinesque's big-eared bat as its state bat. The bill passed 92-15, but died in the state senate. [ 3 ] In 2020, the big brown bat was designated the official state mammal of the District of Columbia . [ 4 ]
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Image credits: Velghast Out of the many interesting responses in this thread, one particularly caught our eye. Redditor u/Velghast shared his unusual ability to smell insects, which intrigued us ...