Are there reasons for conserving bats?

Answer 1

yes because:

Some bats help control the insect population. With bats eating all those insects, this means fewer chemicals and poisons will be used on crops, and that's healthier for all of us!

Certain Bats are helpful to farmers. This saves crops from damage, and
makes more food available at the market. A colony of just 150 big brown bats can aid farmers by eating up to 18 million or more rootworms each summer.

Many bats spread seeds for new plants and trees. Tropical bats are important to rain forests. They pollinate flowers
and drop seeds for many trees and bushes. In the wild, important plants, from bananas and mangos to nuts, dates and figs,
depend upon bats for pollination and seed dropping. In the southwestern part of the United States, nectar-feeding bats
are the main pollinators of the giant saguaro cactus. By helping to rebuild cut forests, bats are also making sure
other animals continue to have homes, shelter and food.

Answer 2

Yes! bats are very important they are natural insect control and can eat up to 600 insects in one hour! This includes some mosquitoes but also moths that can lay eggs on a farmers crops and then the larva that hatches can do tremendous damage. Also there are many bats that help to pollinate fruits that we eat so if you like..
Fruits that depend on bats for pollination or seed dispersal include:

* Bananas
* Peaches
* Dates
* Carob
* Avocados
* Jack fruit
* Plantains
* Mango
* Guava
* Cashews
* Figs
Thank bats!

they do not carry rabies more often than any other mammal does ,they are not blind, and do not try to get in peoples hair (common myths)

If you have them in your backyard they will work better than an electronic bug zapper (which btw doesn't kill mosquitoes!) to help control insects. If you look on line you can find bat box directions here http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/er/publications/bats/assembly.htm.

Answer 3

Bats fill a very important environmental niche. When all other mammals took to the earth, bats chose the skies. Their importance is undeniable.

Many bats eat fruits and help disperse seeds from place to place.

Others eats insects like mosquitos and moths and keep their populations under control.

Bats are nocturnal and birds are diurnal so only the bats can eat the insects that come out at night.

Plus, bats are just plain cool. ^^

Answer 4

When I take into consideration the question of conservation, I look at things like- do the creatures in question attack humans without reason? For instance, I do not like wasp because I've had past experiences with them where they will come up to me for no reason and sting me! Furthermore, could other species get by without the particular species in question? For example- mosquitoes! Why should we have to put up with these rotten little things that suck our blood and wake us up in the middle of the night when spiders and other insects could get by on other insects for food instead (like harmless crainfiles). I recall answering a question similar to this last week regarding Great White Sharks. If they were' eliminated, other species would probably get by without them and humans could have more food available to them because Great White Sharks would be out of the picture. I've never been bothered by bats so I do not see any reason to eliminate them.

Answer 5

There are bats that pollinate plants and disperse seeds. So bats are important for survival of other species such as plants. In turn these plants are important for other species...and so on to the rest of food chains.

Answer 6

Yes, there certainly is MANY, many millions of reasons to keep bats around. Along with all other insect devouring creatures possible... Nighthawks, frogs, toads, spiders, dragonfly's. I dont know about where you live but here in Northern Canada we have alot of water, and water spawns billions upon billions of hungry female Mosquitos(Mosquitoes are found in every part of Canada except on a few of the small Arctic Islands. Other biting flies may be severe pests in certain areas, but mosquitoes are ubiquitous, and may be encountered both day and night, and from early spring until late summer, giving no respite even in autumn in some years.)
Blackflies(There are more species of black flies than of mosquitoes in Canada; over 100 have already been recorded, and there are more that have not even been named.)
Bats eat alot of mosquitos along with many other insect species, they play an important part in reducing the populations of biting insects, as do spiders, dragonflys, nighthawks... They all have a place in the ecosystem and all should be protected by conservation if thier decline is due to human interference. One bat can eat 200 mosquitoes in one night and birds eat hundreds of mosquitoes every day. Without these mosquito predators, we would really have a mosquito problem! So it is in everyones best interest to promote the conservation of bats because without them there would be alot more mosquitos and blackflies to eat you alive outside....
If that is not reason enough to conserve bats, surely thier other unique roles in different ecosystems are... Cave dwelling bats are actually the primary source of nutrients for an entire food web of other cave life that feeds on bat droppings(guano), and any dead bats that fall to the cave floor (or the meters thick layer guano) Without the source of dung some incredibly unique cave dwelling creatures would not exist... Some of the smaller bat species are important pollinators of some tropical flowers. Indeed, many tropical plants are now found to be totally dependent on them, not just for pollination, but for spreading their seeds by eating the resulting fruits. Other bat species consume significant crop and forest pests including ground beetles, scarab beetles, cucumber beetles, snout beetles and stink bugs, in addition to numerous species of moths and leafhoppers. In fact, a colony of 150 big brown bats can consume enough adult cucumber beetles in one summer to prevent egg-laying that would produce 33 million of their root-worm larvae, a major pest of corn. Another bat, the Little brown myotis, forages over water where their diet consists of aquatic insects, mainly midges, mosquitoes, mayflies, and caddisflies. They also feed over forest trails, cliff faces, meadows, and farmland where they consume a wide variety of insects, from moths and beetles to crane flies. Individuals can catch up to 1,200 insects in just one hour during peak feeding activity. Because bats consume such a wide variety of insects they are extremely important to have around in order to keep the insect populations in check... for these reasons and because all life is valuable we should certainly promote the conservation of all species of bats as an important part of our ecosystem.

Answer 7

bats eat billions of bugs so i guess you could say its like little flying bug zappers glad to have them around

Answer 8

THEY EAT MOSQUITOS!!!!!!!!