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Bats have been around the world for thousands of years. And there are 1240 differant species of bat on the planet. 70% of the bats are insectivores, and most of the rest are fruit eaters. There are a few fish eating bat, and one paracitic mamal known as the vampire bat. There are also a few carnivorous species of bat which eat lizzards, frogs, etc and one which catches birds in flight to eat them.

But lets talk about the bats here in the United States.

There are 47 kinds of bat here in the continental US. and I will name them here.

pallid bat

Jamaican fruit-eating bat

Mexican long-tongued bat

Rafinesque’s big-eared bat

Townsend’s big-eared bat

big brown bat

spotted bat

Florida bonneted bat

greater bonneted bat

Underwood’s bonneted bat

Allen’s big-eared bat

silver-haired bat

western red bat

eastern red bat

hoary bat

southern yellow bat

northern yellow bat

Seminole bat

western yellow bat

lesser long-nosed bat

lesser long-nosed bat

Mexican long nosed bat

California leaf-nosed bat

Pallas’s mastiff bat

Peters’s ghost-faced bat

southwestern myotis

southeastern myotis

California myotis

western small-footed myotis

long-eared myotis

gray myotis

Keen’s myotis

eastern small-footed myotis

little brown myotis

small-footed dark-nosed myotis

Arizona myotis

northern myotis

Indiana myotis

fringed myotis

cave myotis

long-legged myotis

Yuma myotis

evening bat

pocketed free-tailed bat

big free-tailed bat

canyon bat

tri-colored bat

Mexican free-tailed bat