Florida Evening Bat

Evening bats are known to roost in palm fronds in florida.

Florida evening bat. If a solitary bat is unsuccessful it will follow a group of bats to the food source. I have dozens of good evening bat photos so email me if you want any of them. Evening bats feed on beetles moths flies and leafhoppers that they are able to catch in midair during slow steady flight. They often roost in colonies in houses and other buildings and because of this are sometimes considered a nuisance.

It has short dark ears and the muzzle is broad unfurred and nearly black. The tip of each dorsal hair is a light gray and one to two thirds of the basal is dark brown. Evening bats find food using echolocation. The evening bat is very similar in appearance to the big brown bat only it is smaller in size.

I think this bat is pretty good looking compared to other bats such as the free tail. 10 11 inches body length. Evening bats are also commonly seen throughout the southern part of florida with the exception of the florida keys. Each female has her young in mid april.

Nycticeius humeralis photo chris burney. The fur of evening bats is typically dark brown but may be tinted bronze. Evening bat 2 evening bats are quite tolerant of other species. At first glance an evening bat may be confused with the large brown bat as they share similar features in the facial area however the evening bat is considerably smaller in size.

In autumn evening bats in their northern range will migrate south to warmer climates. The fur of the evening bat is usually a dark brown but may also have a bronze to reddish tint. This species closely resembles the big brown bat but is smaller in size. The wingspan of adult evening bats measures about 10 or 11 inches and body length measures about 1 9 to 2 6 inches.

A colony of 100 bats can consume over 1 25 million insects a season kurta 2001. Evening bats have short black narrow wings and blunt rounded ears. Evening bats are common throughout florida except in the keys. Evening bats form small colonies or groups that range from a few to as many as 100 individuals.

They often share roosts with brazilian free tailed bats and southeastern myotis. Females are larger than males. Evening bats will form colonies of several to about eighty bats and have been found in buildings and other man made structures. The evening bat is a small bat 7 15 grams found throughout much of the midwestern and eastern united states their forearms are 34 38 mm 1 33 in in length.