- Cockroaches
- BeesAlabama Big Brown Bats are insectivore so they only eat insects including beetles, wasps, bees, flies and more insects. Usually Alabama bats hunt above the tree canopy, as they are one of the first bats to emerge in the evening. They find their food using Alabama echolocation.
- Wasps
- MosquitoesThe "little brown Maine bat" (Myotis lucifugus) is a very common, mouse-eared animal that inhabits man-made structures, like house attics and barns, in colonies ranging from a few members to hundreds. They are most Maine commonly seen within about 1000 feet of a lake, stream or marsh. And, best of all, when actively Maine feeding they can consume over 500 mosquitoes and other pesky insects an hour!
- FliesOklahoma bats do not lay eggs All Oklahoma bats give birth to one or two naked young a year. A newborn Oklahoma bat has well developed feet and claws that it uses to cling to its mother or to roost when the mother leaves to eat. Disturbances of Oklahoma maternity roosts can result in large numbers of young bat deaths. When disturbed, the mother bat becomes excited and flies, jerking the young bats and causing them to fall.
- BeetlesThese Arkansas insects are serious agricultural pests; with the larval form of cucumber beetles (known as corn rootworms) costing US farmers one billion dollars annually. Bats have good Arkansas vision, but use echolocation to navigate and capture prey at
- ScorpionsAll Oklahoma bats in Oklahoma feed on insects such as moths, mosquitoes, cucumber and June beetles, leafhoppers and even scorpions, to name just a few. In fact, Oklahoma bats are the only major predator of these night-flying insects. Some bats can consume more than 3,000 Oklahoma mosquitoes each night!
- MothsAs much of these Louisiana swamp-lands have been drained and trees have been harvested, these Louisiana bats have apparently moved their maternity roosts into old buildings or attics. Louisiana Rafinesque’s big-eared bats are slow, agile flyers and appear to forage on a wide variety of small, nocturnal insects, especially moths. They hibernate near their Louisiana summer foraging grounds in old mines, caves, and cisterns.
- Stink Bugs
- BatsThe Colorado Bat Conservation Fund is a non-profit Colorado organization dedicated to the preservation of Colorado bats. The Colorado fund's major activities include...
- RaccoonsWhile 99% of all bats are rabies free, they still rank in the number three position behind raccoons and skunks for giving human beings rabies. It has been reported that during the past 20 years, there have been more human rabies cases that began with a bat bite in the United States than of any other wildlife group.
- SnakesCoronavirus was believed to have started in a large seafood or wet market. This suggesting according to the CDC animal-to-person spread. A large number of people diagnosed with the virus reportedly didn't have exposure to the wet markets. What this indicates that person-to-person spread of the virus is also occurring. Researchers looked deeper and they discovered that the protein strain codes of 2019-nCoV were most like those used in snakes.
- Wildlife
- Birds
- Sparrows
- Crows
- RodentsOf the Idaho 26 orders of mammals in the Class Mammalia, the order Idaho Chiroptera, which means winged hand, is graced with an amazing diversity of 925 recognized Idaho species. In fact, Idaho bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals, achieving second place to the largest group, the Idaho rodents. Many people think of Idaho bats as flying rodents, but bats are really more closely related to Idaho primates.
- MiceBats represent an extremely diverse mammalian order with more than 1,400 species, second only to rodents. Keeping flying animals in a lab is very difficult. Many labs test rats and mice as they are easy to house and test. Unfortunately there is very little knowledge and the gap of lack of scientific information is dangerous as the current pandemic shows. Bats are almost everywhere and with expanding human encroachment on their habitat, viral infection is almost inevitable. Most of the mammalian cell lines developed for research came from other animals and cannot be used to study viruses found in bats.
- RatsScientists have know that Bats carry more disease-causing viruses than any other mammal except rats. Knowing this bats have long been a major subject of viral research. With these facts and the global pandemic of Covid-19 bat-hunting scientists in China, have come under fire since the emergence of Covid-19 which is supposedly from bats. With the complexity of host distributions through bats could increase the difficulty in resolving the origins of Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogenic coronaviruses
- SquirrelsNew York bats are as misunderstood as all the other USA bat creatures. New York bats are repulsive to many and feared by other New Yorkers, but these amazing, beneficial animals have an undeserved bad reputation. New York bats are the only mammal that can truly fly (flying squirrels glide, not fly), and most New York bat species are insect-eating machines, performing incredible aerial acrobatics as they chase and devour 20-50% of their weight in insects each night.