Insect-eating bats may be helpful consumers of pests of crops including grapevines, orchard fruits, and vegetables, per study following six horseshoe bat colonies in northern Spain

Insect-eating bats may be helpful consumers of pests of crops including grapevines, orchard fruits, and vegetables, per study following six horseshoe bat colonies in northern Spain

Article URL : https://plos.io/3SfGVgV

Article title: Pest consumption by common bats in diverse landscapes

Author countries: The Basque Country.

Funding: This research was funded by grant PID2019-108123GB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union, and by the Basque Government (Research grant IT1571-22) and its Biodiversity Directorate (Expedient No 049‐2022‐42). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0347853

Pest consumption by common bats in diverse landscapes

17-Jun-2026

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.