PIX11.Com reported that with the worry about mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, bats can be our best ecological friends since they can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour. So PIX11 went on bat walk in Central Park. The group of 30 batty people each paid $40 a ticket to go in search of the nine species of bats in Central Park.
"July is a buggy month, the best time for our bat walk," Brad Klein, our bat leader, told PIX 11. "Bats are good because they reduce the insect population." Dusk is the best time to catch a glimpse of the only mammals that fly. These bats, by the way, are not the blood-sucking vampire variety.
They learned that it's actually their echo-locating or feeding that we hear. Their group of the young and not so young are all in love with bats. After spying a family of raccoons, and high-flying chimney swifts and night herons, finally they heard the sound and the sight of bats flying both high and low at the bridge to the ramble of Central Park.
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