Catching Dinner on the Fly … The Night is Alive With the Sound of Echoes

Although bats have excellent vision, they also can “see” with their ears well enough to catch flying mosquitoes in the darkness

Little Brown Bat, Myotis lucifugus, eats more mosquitoes in one day than you do in a lifetime.

The evening was peaceful as the sun settled below the horizon. Suddenly, the orange and red sky was dotted with flying blue-grey silhouettes zigzagging above Seattle’s Lake Union. Bats! Some bats dipped low over the water’s surface to drink in a manner similar…