The widespread replacement of conventional bulbs in street lighting by energy-saving light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has considerable influence on bats as urban nocturnal hunters. Opportunistic bats lose ...

When trying to evade bats and their echolocation calls, moths will make a few last-ditch maneuvers to save their lives. One of these is known as the powerdive. But with all the energy-saving LED ...

This creative lighting strategy could be implemented in other areas worldwide to safeguard nocturnal wildlife.

A Dutch town’s new red street lights are designed to make sure they don’t bother bats–and are just as helpful to humans as regular white lights. If you walk down the sidewalk in a new neighborhood in ...

Slow-flying, woodland bats—which tend to be at greater risk from extinction than their speedier kin—really don't like the light, according to a study published online on June 18th in Current Biology, ...

Some bat species seek shelter during the day in the attics of large, mostly historic buildings within human settlements, even though they forage for insects at night in the dark surrounding ...

You’d think Halloween would be the battiest time of the year, but these winged mammals merit a second annual celebration. In honor of National Bat Appreciation Day, we’re taking a look at urban bats ...