Evening Bat

Similar Species:
Big Brown Bat is much large. Myotises usually have long narrow, straight tragus, and 2 tiny premolars behind canine.

Breeding:
Mates in fall; fertilization delayed until spring. 2 young norm June-early July. Young can fly in about 4 weeks.

Habitat:
Woodland or mixed woodland and open areas. In summer, roosts in buildings and hollow trees; winter residences not know.

Range:
Southeaster U.S., from se Nebraska, s Iowa, and s Michigan east to s Pennsylvania (but not Allegheny Mountains) and Atlantic states, and south to e Texas and Gulf Coast.

The Evening Bat almost never enter caves, roosting mainly in buildings and tree hollows. Its food preferences are similar to those of the Big Brown Bat, primarily beetles an true bugs, although it eater more moths. It spends much time foraging over cornfields for cucumber beetles, and also eats many green stinkbugs, June bugs, and leafhoppers. Maternity colonies often form in buildings, but sometimes in hollow trees, and may include hundreds of individual; they disperse by fall, but there winter whereabouts are not know, This species is becoming very scare in the northern parts of it range an should be protected there.