Land Managers
Do you have any caves, sink holes or abandoned mines on your land (or know of any)? If so we'd love to hear from you!
Do you know that bats contribute to our ecosystems and a healthy environment? They are key players in pollination, seed dispersal and insect control - eating huge quantities of insects, including many agricultural pests. These roles are called 'ecosystem services' - where the natural world provides 'services' that is of benefit to humans. So isn't it time we started to value the 'invaluable'?
To find out more of what is being done in the US, watch the Save Bats to Save Agriculture to see how bat ecologists, the agricultural industry and governments are working together to! In South Africa, Professor Peter Taylor from the University of Venda and colleagues collected droppings from bats on macadamia farms which were sent to Denmark for genetic dietary analysis. From the initial results they have found that eight out of nine species caught on the farms, had eaten stinkbug (a major crop pest) - this was confirmed from the genetic analysis carried out on the their droppings. Bats are voracious predators of night flying insects, and are known to eat many crop pests.
Do you know that bats contribute to our ecosystems and a healthy environment? They are key players in pollination, seed dispersal and insect control - eating huge quantities of insects, including many agricultural pests. These roles are called 'ecosystem services' - where the natural world provides 'services' that is of benefit to humans. So isn't it time we started to value the 'invaluable'?
To find out more of what is being done in the US, watch the Save Bats to Save Agriculture to see how bat ecologists, the agricultural industry and governments are working together to! In South Africa, Professor Peter Taylor from the University of Venda and colleagues collected droppings from bats on macadamia farms which were sent to Denmark for genetic dietary analysis. From the initial results they have found that eight out of nine species caught on the farms, had eaten stinkbug (a major crop pest) - this was confirmed from the genetic analysis carried out on the their droppings. Bats are voracious predators of night flying insects, and are known to eat many crop pests.