bats

Nightly in the summer months, between 10 and 20 million bats stream out of Bracken Cave to dine on bugs.

The Bracken Cave Preserve, outside of San Antonio, is home to as many as 20 million bats.

Break out the lawn chairs: You can watch the baby bats and their mothers' nightly emergence from several free pedestrian areas near the Congress Avenue Bridge.

A new report from Texas-based Bat Conservation International finds that urgent action is needed to protect bats from disease and climate change.

The city's got the largest urban bat population in the world. The bats draw scores of tourists to the South Congress Bridge year-round, but they could face complications from planned construction nearby.

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

While Halloween may be over, caring about bats never goes out of style.

Local pest control companies report complaints about all sorts of critters showing up inside and outside homes have picked up with the recent heat wave.

Today is the first day of spring, and it's time for all those bugs to start coming out into the sunshine. How did the historic freeze in February affect our local insects? Will there be more or less of them this year? Dr. Jessica Beckham is an entomologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Following Winter Storm Uri's freeze, about 500 bat bodies have been picked up daily in the past three days.