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You can’t think about Halloween without thinking about bats. Those creepy, blood-sucking rats with wings give us the heebie-jeebies and we don’t care who knows it. Well don’t let Jennifer Newmark, Wildlife Diversity Division chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife hear you say that.

We're in the bat-iest stretch of the year, so this sighting is right on time.

We're in the bat-iest stretch of the year, so this sighting is right on time.

It's international Bat Week, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wants to teach you how to save bats that remain here in the winter.

On the towering, colorful cliffs of Zion National Park, groundbreaking research in the bat world is taking flight and more funds are needed to continue.

This hour, we hear from the co-founders of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project, and the state representative planning to propose exoneration legislation. Plus, DEEP gives an update on dire losses in North American bat populations.

Biologists say most people's understanding of bats is based in myth and fiction. As part of Bat Week, they want the public to think about protecting these vital 'natural pest controllers.'

It's international Bat Week, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wants to teach you how to save bats that remain here in the winter.

Almost 70 percent of people plan to celebrate, according to the National Retail Federation. That’s one of our 13 groups that make Halloween what it is.

CADILLAC — Since the introduction of White Nose Syndrome to Michigan in 2014, the number of bats hibernating in the caves of the Upper Peninsula has decreased by nearly 90%.