These two female little brown bats are best friends. We find them roosting together, looking for snacks together and eating together. They take dinner very serious, and although they will happily share the dish they will not share mealworms 🤣 Volume 🆙 for little brown bat squabbles. Little brown bats are highly social and intelligent tiny bats. In the fall both males and females swarm together near hibernating sites, then disperse and return to hibernate in dense colonies. Hibernating colonies

Little brown bats are recovering – in a big way! We’re encouraged to see that this species, once decimated by white-nose syndrome, has growing numbers for the third year in a row at summer roost sites. Last month, volunteers across the state participated in the annual Great Wisconsin Bat Count and observed nearly 25,000 bats as they emerged from their daytime roosts, up from 22,600 counted in July 2024. These efforts help DNR biologists better understand the status of Wisconsin’s big brown bat a

The Summer Bat Count in action 🦇 Bat emergence surveys are an important way we monitor local bat populations. We quietly count bats as they fly out from roosts like attics, barns and bat houses to begin their nightly hunt for insects. These surveys help us track population trends for species like the little brown bat, which face threats from habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. | Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ

Meet our two non-releasable little brown bat girls. Buffy and Willow came into care last year both sustained injuries that rendered them unable to be released back into the wild. They became best friends and remain in sanctuary with us. They have a nightly routine which is an eager and impatient display for dinner 😂 This species was once the most common bat in Pennsylvania. However, its numbers collapsed rapidly after the arrival of White‑Nose Syndrome (WNS). In Pennsylvania, the little brown