Bat Week! Why you should help

Little brown bat. Photo courtesy SMBishop – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53580349 Bats are insect-eating machines, eating thousands of flying insects in a single night! That’s one reason why gardeners should help bats. And one way you can help bats is by planting a pollinator garden. The plants attract insects, and the insects pollinate the plants. Bats are a player in that, too, by keeping the insect population in check. We have nine species of bats in New York…