Did you know that bats can eat hundreds of insects every night? They’re a highly effective natural pest control! While you’ll often see estimates into the multiple thousands of insects per night, that’s based on extrapolating the number of insects eaten in a short period of time into several hours—and in the words of Tim Carter, a bat biologist: “a bat can’t eat at that rate all night long. If I put you down in front of a tray of French fries, and I record how many you eat in the first minute, t
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Did you know that bats can eat hundreds of insects every night? They’re a highly effective natural pest control! While you’ll often see estimates into the multiple thousands of insects per night, that’s based on extrapolating the number of insects eaten in a short period of time into several hours—and in the words of Tim Carter, a bat biologist: “a bat can’t eat at that rate all night long. If I put you down in front of a tray of French fries, and I record how many you eat in the first minute, t
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