What do North Carolina bats eat? Do any of them consume blood?
All bats found in North Carolina eat insects. Because bats are nocturnal (active only at night), they feed on nocturnal insects including mosquitoes and many important agricultural pests. A large colony of big brown bats can eat 18 million corn rootworms each summer, protecting harvests. A single evening bat can dispense with 21,000 insects annually. Only three species of vampire bat exist worldwide and they all occur in Latin America.
