This discovery casts a gloomy forecast for the these mammals, which are important food plant pollinators and offer important information used in medical research, particularly as it pertains to blindness. Also, a single bat can eat thousands of insects in a single night. Bats are critical to controlling bugs that threaten agriculture and forestry; their pest-control value to the economy is estimated in the billions of dollars. Without them, and with declining populations of honeybees and bumblebees, we will be left facing huge financial burdens.
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