Chelsea, the Evening Bat, is a native species of bat that can be found here in Florida and throughout the Southeast! 🦇 Evening bats specialize in eating a variety of beetles and other insects that eat crops. In the USA alone, our bat friends save farmers over a billion dollars annually in pesticides and crop damage! 🌾🦇#bats #funfact #lubeebats #lubeebatconservancy #cute #nonprofit #florida | Lubee Bat Conservancy

Evening bats are NOTORIOUS for roosting in patio umbrellas⛱️. Because of this, we put up the Official Bat World Sanctuary Patio Umbrella for Convaleced Evening Bats ™️. Daphne is the first bat to be released in the umbrella. After suffering a wing injury from a blue jay she was brought to the sanctuary, despite her NUMEROUS protests. While healing, she made it known that she did NOT like anyone of us by screaming every chance she got. Now she’s healed and gained her strength back so she can once