According to Cape Neddick’s Center for Wildlife, “In the United States alone, bats provide roughly three billion dollars in insect control annually. Our insectivorous bats use one of the most ...

So, Deshpande and Barje configured BatEchoMon to activate automatically at sunset, when insectivorous bats begin flying for food, and record continuously for several hours.

News Release 9-Aug-2022 Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging Peer-Reviewed Publication Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) ...

Insectivorous bats form mobile sensory networks to optimize prey localization: The case of the common noctule bat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022; 119 (33) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

Bats also use echolocation to find food. Of the over 1,400 bat species, about 1,000 species use echolocation to hunt for prey.

Insectivorous bats provide free pest control to farmers and backyard barbecues and don’t ask for a dime, but just to be left alone to get their fill of flying insects.