This female came to us in mid- April and the weather was still iffy. I kept her about a week and a half until the weather warmed up and there were plenty of insects. She was released back at the site in which she was found.
Worldwide there are close to 100 species of mouse-eared bats, all belonging to the genus Myotis. Only 15 of these occur in North America, north of Mexico.
The Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus), is the most common mouse-eared bat in Canada and the northern two-thirds of the U.S. They can catch as many as 600 mosquitoes an hour.
