Every spring, three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

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Of course, not all bats eat bugs, but the vegetarian ones play just as significant of a role in our ecosystem. Nectar-eating bats are major pollinators for many of the edible plants we know and love.

With the exception of three flower-eating species that migrate from Mexico, the bats in the United States are insectivorous. Those species that eat pollen, nectar, and in some instances, petals from ...

but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata. Mariana Muñoz-Romo Tropical bats eat ...

Cristobal Serrano (Spain) illuminates the darkness, revealing the scarlet tongue of a nectar-loving bat as it feeds. Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But ...

Lesser long-nosed bats are migratory animals. They spend the winter in central Mexico then follow the scent of blooming flowers—often called the "nectar trail"—as far north as southern Arizona ...

Researchers say they now have a way to tell the endangered species apart from other bats by analyzing saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential ...