Fruit bats? Here in the U.S.? Well, no, except for a few along the border with Mexico. Most of the 40 bat species that live in the U.S. and Canada eat insects—and we’re darn lucky they do that for us, both for the crops they protect (about $3.7 billion-worth per year!) and for the reduction of biting insects (kind of hard to count the bites we didn’t get, but yay, right?). Let’s talk about these fruit bats, though, because they’re superheroes to … [Read more...]