A secret war is waged above farmland every night. Just after dusk, high-stakes aerial combat is fought in the darkness atop the crop canopy. Nature’s air force arrives in waves over crop fields, ...

It's a mutually beneficial relationship. Scientists discover unexpected ally in fight against harmful insects: 'It becomes ...

Farmers conventionally rely on pesticides to protect their crops. Now farmers are relying on a more eco-friendly, less expensive solution: bats. Harvest Public Media’s Michael Marks reports.

Pecan orchard Swift River Pecans collaborates with nonprofit Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, emphasizing the symbiotic ...

Three of Arkansas's 16 species of bats are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A fourth species is expected to be added soon and has been "proposed endangered." Credit: ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

Walnuts are one of the highest value crops in California -- bringing in almost $2 billion every year. But keeping the crop free of destructive insects can be costly. Scientists are studying if walnut ...

A bat forages on the flies attracted to a white-tailed deer. Source: Meredith Palmer, used with permission. There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plague white-tailed deer. There ...

In the mid-1930s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, I used to play at Cassiano Park on the corner of South Laredo and Zarzamora streets, where there was a bat roost. It was a huge, boxlike structure that ...