With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence? Perhaps ...

Unfounded claims that bats get stuck in people’s hair, that all bats have rabies, and Hollywood’s influence (for example, the concept of blood-sucking vampires) often put bats in a negative light. The ...

Bats are one of a few animals associated with Halloween. But Connecticut environmentalists want residents to know these flying predators are nothing to fear! It is the possibility of losing them that ...

Why are bats a Halloween staple? Why is their silhouette, slapped onto a cheap decoration, synonymous with fright? Why are they the one thing Bruce Wayne dreads? Maybe it’s because we fear what we don ...

Happy Halloween, the celebration of all things spooky, made scarier for people this year by the COVID-19 pandemic. But for some of Halloween’s most beloved icons, bats, the situation is dire: They’re ...

Have you noticed that decorations and kids’ drawings at Halloween always seem to include bats? Swooping, scary bats. But are these night-loving critters — the only mammals that can truly fly — ...