AY Honors/Fishkeeping/Requirements

15. What are the two (2) main benefits bats provide for man?

• a. Eat insects. A single brown bat can eat 1,200 insects per hour (3,000 - 7,000 per night). Bats eat such harmful insects such as cockroaches, mosquitoes, and gnats. Large colonies of bats can consume many insects that would otherwise harm farmers' crops.