They’re great for the environment, but not your home. Don’t miss these early signs of a bat infestation. Bats get a bad rap First things first: A bat infestation doesn’t mean a horror movie scenario.

15. Olm (image credits: unsplash) The olm is a blind salamander found in the deep, watery caves of Slovenia and Croatia. With pale, almost translucent skin and a snake-like body stretching up to a ...

Cadomin Cave is Alberta’s largest known bat hibernaculum. The cave, among the largest in the Canadian Rockies, is a critical hibernation site for hundreds of bats — three species use the cave ...

Some researchers have proposed that gases released from the enormous amount of guano (bird and bat droppings) accumulated on the cave floor may affect the birds’ neurological functions, temporarily ...

Before reserving a tour, you need to know a few things about visiting Carlsbad Caverns and what you can and cannot take with you on a tour. According to park staff: Some areas of the Big Room and ...

To test whether bat guano accurately recorded fires, Tsalickis et al. collected a 2-meter core of guano buildup from a limestone cave in central Tennessee. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the ...

Bat guano yields ‘unconventional’ historical fire data, scientists say The guano in question was collected from Cripps Mill Cave in Tennessee, a limestone cave home to gray bats and Indiana bats.

The walls are thick with mites, ticks and other bat parasites. The air of the cave is foul with the unpleasant ammoniacal odor of bats, whose excreta comes showering down.

In the heart of south east Asia lies the tropical island of Borneo. Twice the size of the British Isles, it is the third largest island on earth and home to possibly the greatest diversity of life of ...

Another cave creature adapted to life in total darkness is the cave beetle. This creature is a true troglobite that cannot survive outside its cave. Its life is entirely subterranean, thriving in cold ...

Differently from D. disneyi, a species associated with caves in Central America and whose immature forms live in bat guano and have shown the highest prevalence associated with the smallest cave ...

They will, of course, be passing some of those digested bugs onto the floor of Bracken Cave, and that 100 feet deep space of guano at the cave bottom used to be a harvestable commodity in centuries ...