Bats Provide Pest Control Services to Deer

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Photo: Meredith Palmer.

There are a dozen or so species of blood-sucking flies that plaguewhite-tailed deer. There is little a deer can do to defend themselvesfrom these biting fly attacks.

But what is a painful nuisance to a deer is also a dinner buffet for bats. In a new study, researchers report numerous instances of insect-eating bats feeding on the swarms of flies attracted to white-tailed deer.

Read my post about it here: Bats Provide Pest Control Services to Deer.

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