So if you’ve lived through the early ’90s you’ve heard the song Girls & Boys by Blur. It seemed like a modern song at the time, but the African bat bug got there long before the band did. In this ...

There are a lot of images that come to mind when you think of bats. Long webbed wings, sharp teeth, the dark and cold caves they like to inhabit throughout much of the year. When students at the ...

Alias: Bat bugs. The family Cimicidae, to which the bat bugs, bed bugs, swallow and swift bugs, and several others belong, have a worldwide distribution. Bat bugs are small, oval-shaped, flattened ...

With traveling on the rise, so is the risk of bringing bed bugs home. In the last few years, the number of bed bugs brought into Extension offices for identification has increased. Bat bugs are also ...

Members of a third new bat species. A colony of what is apparently a new species of Hipposideros from an abandoned gold mine in Western Kenya. (Photo courtesy of B.D. Patterson / Field Museum) ...