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[chickisoup]

 

[Bunnylady]

Umm, chicki? There are no fruit bats in the Americas. Eurasia, Australia, Africa, but not the Americas. I don't know which species you had (there are many native to the U.S) but most North American bats are insectivores.

 

[ronott1]

Umm, chicki? There are no fruit bats in the Americas. Eurasia, Australia, Africa, but not the Americas. I don't know which species you had (there are many native to the U.S) but most North American bats are insectivores.

The most common bat the the US is the small brown bat.

 

[FridayYet]

I would rather have bats than flying bugs, that's for sure. (But not in the house.)

Maybe a bat house or two would be a good idea around here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have the bats here but they only come out at dusk for the bugs
as long as it stays that way we will leave them alone

 

[chickisoup]

Umm, chicki? There are no fruit bats in the Americas. Eurasia, Australia, Africa, but not the Americas. I don't know which species you had (there are many native to the U.S) but most North American bats are insectivores.

excuse me, sorry for my lack of knowledge of bat species. They were in my apple trees so I just said fruit bats since this was 30+ yrs ago and I could no longer remember their specific appearance. Thank you for kindly correcting my ignorance.

 

[ronott1]

excuse me, sorry for my lack of knowledge of bat species. They were in my apple trees so I just said fruit bats since this was 30+ yrs ago and I could no longer remember their specific appearance. Thank you for kindly correcting my ignorance.

It makes perfect sense that you would call them fruit bats. Small brown bats love to live in trees in the spring and summer months. They find a cave to hibernate in during the winter.

I suspect that the bat in my house was living in a prickly pear cactus a couple of houses down. The neighbors next to us replaced the fence next to it and likely disturbed their nesting area and the bat was looking for a new place to call home...That is ok but not my bedroom!

 

[perchie.girl]

fruit bats are called flying foxes they dont have echo location because they don't need it to find food only a good sense of smell.. and are the largest bats in the world.

they definately have fox like shaped faces

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

Quote:
If we are going to get picky with corrections

the most common bat in the US is the little brown bat.
Little, small; pretty much the same thing

 

[ronott1]

If we are going to get picky with corrections

the most common bat in the US is the little brown bat.
Little, small; pretty much the same thing

It is the same thing! Just a different name.

It is actually called
ScientificclassificationKingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataClass:MammaliaOrder:ChiropteraFamily:VespertilionidaeSubfamily:MyotinaeGenus:MyotisSpecies:M. lucifugusBinomial name Myotis lucifugus
(LeConte, 1831)

That should take care of the specific thing.