Bats

One of the most iconic Halloween symbols has been suffering a severe population drop for more than a decade, officials from the the Connecticut Deprtment of Energy and Environemntal Protection said Monday. What's normal Across Connecticut is that bats are on the move with three species of tree bats moving south for the winter and while the six cave bat species moving "shorter distances," where they will spend the winter hibernating, DEEP officials said.

Based on the science available to date, there is evidence to support the claim that bats are being negatively affected by neonicotinoid insecticides in several different ways, indirectly through reduction in insect abundance and directly through impairment.

Deutschlands Fledermäuse erwachen jetzt aus ihrem Winterschlaf. Doch die Nahrungssuche wird für Fledermäuse immer schwieriger. „Unsere Fledermäuse ernähren sich grundsätzlich von Insekten. Ab der Abenddämmerung jagen unsere 25 heimischen Fledermausarten vor allem Mücken und Nachtfalter. Um zu überleben, muss eine Fledermaus täglich bis zu einem Drittel ihres eigenen Körpergewichts fressen. Das entspricht bis zu zehn Gramm, allein in den Sommermonaten kommt so rund ein Kilogramm Insekten-Nahrung zusammen.

One of the most iconic Halloween symbols has been suffering a severe population drop for more than a decade, officials from the the Connecticut Deprtment of Energy and Environemntal Protection said Monday.

What's normal Across Connecticut is that bats are on the move with three species of tree bats moving south for the winter and while the six cave bat species moving "shorter distances," where they will spend the winter hibernating, DEEP officials said.

Hibernating bats may be storing pesticides from contaminated insect food in their flesh over winter, lowering their immune systems and putting them at greater risk of disease and death, says the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF).

At the recent Extinction Rebellion protest in Moretonhamstead as reported in the last edition of The Moorlander, one of the flyers the group were handing out brought attention to the worrying decline in Devon’s wildlife. A 90% decline in Greater Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) has been seen, 97% of wildflower meadows have been lost since the 1930s, Nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) no longer breed in Devon; the last pair was recorded in 1993.