Bat Week
#BatFacts
Nevada is home to
23
different
species
of bats
Bats eat large quantities of insects like
mosquitoes, beetles, grasshoppers,
moths, and locusts.
A single bat can eat more than 1,000 small insects per night.
A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats
have adopted a bridge in Reno.
Up to
100,000 bats roost during the summer.
Reno
Bat guano is
used in fertilizer.
Bats are the only
mammals that can fly.
www.NDOW.org