Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state’s first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a mission to understand how many bats have been lost.
Bats fly into a custom bat box at a farm near Swift River Pecans in Lockhart before sunrise. Pecan farmer Troy Swift started using bat boxes in 2021 in an effort to reduce pesticides.Swift said he’s still in the experimental process — trying to figure out what types of bat boxes work best, which species of bats he’s attracting and which insects they’re eating.
His work to protect the now-famous bats — considered the largest urban bat colony in the world — inspired the city in 2021 to declare his birthday, Aug. 26, Merlin Tuttle Day.Across the state, wind turbines kill about 200,000 bats each year — and as more are installed, more bats are being killed, according to Michael Whitby with Bat Conservation International.
Weaver, who researches ways to balance wind energy and bats, said wind energy companies are looking for ways to prevent bat deaths. Scientists have found that pausing wind turbines during peak bat flying hours would have small impacts on energy production while saving a lot of bats’ lives.Swift said his bat boxes were home to up to 200 bats at one time, but when he checked on them in mid-July this year, he found them abandoned.
Lisa Ramie, bat care specialist at the Austin Bat Refuge, feeds a pair of hoary bats during the daily morning feeding at their flight cage.Dianne Odegard, co-founder of the Austin Bat Refuge, feeds a juvenile eastern red bat a blended mix of milk and “bug juice” during its rehabilitation process.
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