05/27/2026
Learn and support. What about making a bat box? Great fair project. Speaking of fairs start planning your entries and watch for deadlines to enter one by you. Our summer SET update will have some fair info.
Happy World Dracula Day! While vampires are fictional, bats are often linked to vampire legends but they are much more fascinating than folklore suggests.
Meet the little brown bat, a species native to the northern United States and Canada. Despite its spooky reputation in pop culture, this tiny insect-eater has no interest in blood. Instead, it plays a vital role in our ecosystems by consuming thousands of insects each night. Like all bats, the little brown bat has wings made of a thin membrane stretched over elongated finger bones-an incredible adaptation for flight. Bats also navigate and hunt using echolocation, emitting sound waves to “see” their environment in the dark.
So this World Dracula Day, look past the myths and celebrate the real nighttime heroes of the animal world!
