While you're correct about bats being the leading cause of rabies, there are only about 1-3 cases of rabies reported in the US each year. There's not a lot to be torn about, we need bats. Plain and simple. In a night of hunting, some bats will eat an insect every other second. Mosquito, fly, midge, moth and locust populations would all skyrocket if we didn't have bats. This is very bad news for us all. It seems hopeless, but another reason bat populations are declining so rapidly is loss of habitat, so please build, buy and install bat houses wherever possible. A couple bat houses across a town can provide a good shelter to over a thousand bats.
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While you're correct about bats being the leading cause of rabies, there are only about 1-3 cases of rabies reported in the US each year. There's not a lot to be torn about, we need bats. Plain and simple. In a night of hunting, some bats will eat an insect every other second. Mosquito, fly, midge, moth and locust populations would all skyrocket if we didn't have bats. This is very bad news for us all. It seems hopeless, but another reason bat populations are declining so rapidly is loss of habitat, so please build, buy and install bat houses wherever possible. A couple bat houses across a town can provide a good shelter to over a thousand bats.