Economic importance of bats in the 'billions a year' range
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 15:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers analyzed the economic impact of the loss of bats in North America in agriculture and found it to be in the $3.7 to $53 billion a year range. A single colony of 150 big brown bats eat nearly 1.3 million insects a year -- insects that could potentially be damaging to crops.