KENT COUNTY, MI - Samuel Konyndyk, 18, has been perfecting the design of his multi-chambered bat boxes for years. He began with designing and installing the tiny mammal habitats at his grandparents’ ...

Ever thought about buying or building a bat box to help bats? Think carefully about the design and where you put it, researchers say. Ever thought about buying or building a bat box to help bats?

A Boy Scout’s Eagle project has resulted in nine new bat boxes for the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. Elias Pollard came up with the idea as a result of doing volunteer work at the Nature Preserve, ...

From habitat loss to disease, bat species across Canada are facing multiple threats. As cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared and bats are losing their roosts. In ...

LOWELL, Mich. — A local Boy Scout is using his Eagle Scout project for Lowell Troop 102 to help save the bats in West Michigan. Sam Konyndyk planned and built eight bat boxes, which are man-made ...

URBANA, Ill. — Imagine moving into a new house just to discover it has no insulation. That’s what life can be like for a bat box resident. Bat boxes, a kind of artificial roost, are a simple and ...

Bats local to Cape Girardeau may find new homes this spring in the city's parks, thanks to the efforts of 14-year-old Nick Hodges. And runners and walkers may have fewer mosquitoes to deal with ...

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A Pine-Richland High School senior and longtime Girl Scout’s latest project has volunteers going batty for conservation. Lauren Schwab of Troop 58011 in Wexford assembled bat roosting boxes for the ...

The scouts of Brownie Troop 80124 recently donated three bat boxes to the parks department. Each bat house has space for 70 bats, and they were hung on telephone poles in Waterworth Memorial Park near ...

With shovels and power drills in hand, about a dozen volunteers at the Brookside Preserve in Freeport on Saturday worked to address a persistent pest problem by inviting a natural predator: bats. In ...