With traveling on the rise, so is the risk of bringing bed bugs home. In the last few years, the number of bed bugs brought into Extension offices for identification has increased. Bat bugs are also ...

Finding an infestation of tiny, biting bugs in your house is always cause for alarm. You might immediately assume that you have bed bugs, but you may have a lesser-known relative of the bed bug: the ...

There are a lot of images that come to mind when you think of bats. Long webbed wings, sharp teeth, the dark and cold caves they like to inhabit throughout much of the year. When students at the ...

When it comes to bug-munching, bats are insatiable. Of the 1,250 species, the 40 species on this continent are all insectivores. Big brown bats, red bats, and little brown bats can often be spotted at ...

Bats eat insects, a lot of them, every night. In Florida, there are 13 native bat species. It is illegal to kill bats in Florida. Just in time for Halloween, Bat Appreciation Week is coming.

Different kinds of bats get bitten by different kinds of bat flies: blind, flightless insects that somehow are able to be picky about the kind of bats they go after. In a study inspired by research ...

Massachusetts biologist Elise Stanmyer scrambled into the dark of an abandoned World War II military building. She whispered so she wouldn’t wake its winged residents. Her headlamp illuminated one ...