Bats

As the sun was setting on Saturday, May 16th, the Wildlife Explorers and their families donned headlamps or flashlights and walked the short distance from the BiodiversityWorks office to Cranberry […] ...

January's snow-covered landscape and frigid air likely proabably don't inspire you to think about bats. We associate these fascinating mammals with warm summer nights, when they can be seen fluttering […] ...

Seeing a bat in hand might be a life event for most people, but staff members here at BiodiversityWorks have been getting up close and personal with bats on the […] ...

Endless summer is over, the air is crisp, and our Vineyard bats might be starting to think about hunkering down for the winter. This means it is time for us […] ...

BiodiversityWorks made significant contributions in 2025 studying the regional movements of four bat species. In cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), bat expert Dr. Chris Richardson, […] ...

In 2005, the cold-loving fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) found its way to North America from Europe, likely as an unintended hitchhiker on a caver's boot. Once it established in a […] ...

As bat populations in North America continue to recover from white-nose syndrome, we know very little about the importance of currently used hibernacula and potential future hibernacula by little brown […] ...

Our collaborative endangered bat research discovered a new behavior in northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Long Island 2016 - 2018. We found them hibernating in crawl […] ...