People can help bats that survive white-nose syndrome this winter by building a bat house where they can raise their young during summer months. Stacy Schumacher of Madison builds a bat house.

People want to attract bats to their properties for their importance to the environment and pest control advantages. These mysterious, and somewhat feared, winged mammals are also essential ...

American bats are in danger — due to the spreading of a disease called white-nose syndrome, which has reached Michigan this year, bats are have been dying at a rate of about a million every year. But ...

“Quite a few people put up bat houses around here,” said Ross Winton, wildlife biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in Jerome. “They put them up as roost boxes during the summer, ...