How to Use little brown bat in a Sentence

little brown bat

noun
  • Some species, such as the little brown bat, can live for 30 years.
    — Lauren David, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The state's two most-common bat species are the little brown bat and the big brown bat.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 26 May 2020
  • The little brown bat — that’s its official name — is known for doing this.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In New England, there are nine species of bats, among them the endangered little brown bat.
    — Olivia Deng, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Carstens alluded to a 2018 study he was involved in about the little brown bat.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • One of those colonies today includes nearly 200 little brown bat mothers and babies.
    — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 18 June 2018
  • The little brown bat population has declined by up to 90% in Vermont.
    — USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • Back at Fort Drum, for instance, the little brown bat maternal colony seemed headed for extinction.
    — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 18 June 2018
  • The little brown bat is being evaluated for potential listing.
    — John Flesher, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Reimer has held in her hands little brown bats from the Northwest Territories to the Tanana River.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • In at least four other locations in New York, little brown bat colonies have either stabilized after crashing or have started to climb back up.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
  • Alaska’s little brown bats may be saved from the disease because their adventurous ancestors chose extreme isolation.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Once among the most common bat species in the United States, the little brown bat has been reduced to just 1 percent of its former population.
    — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The department says the little brown bat is endangered in the state, and long-term volunteer monitoring is critical to its management and recovery.
    — USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • The researchers put a band on a little brown bat that was roosting with a summer colony of other Myotis lucifugus–the small brown bats that can be found in many places throughout North America.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • About 200 female little brown bats have made their nesting homes in a shelter at Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Apr. 2018
  • There are about 30 species of bats across the Southeast, but the most common types that get into homes are the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) and big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus).
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The little brown bat is the only one that remains in winter, hibernating upside down underneath the bark of shagbark hickory and other trees, as well as sometimes in people’s attics, Goyette said.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Apr. 2018
  • On this particular night, sitting quietly within a crevice beneath the building’s metal awning and illuminated by Barber’s flashlight, is a little brown bat.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Wisconsin was selected to donate little brown bats because the state is on the leading edge of the disease; states in the East do not have sufficient bat populations to draw from, according to Lindner.
    — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The most common species of bats found in Grand Teton National Park are little brown bats, followed by big brown, silver-haired, hoary, Yuma, long-legged, and long-eared bats, the agency said.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • In early December, crews will collect 45 little brown bats at a hibernacula in northwestern Wisconsin and send them to Pennsylvania.
    — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2017
  • In New York City, where nine species of bats are known to migrate during the summer, a single little brown bat is capable of devouring up to 100 percent of its body weight in insects, a diet that includes mosquitoes.
    — Laura Bliss, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • For example, in 2018, Carstens and Ariadna Morales, a graduate student, published a paper that found the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is actually five different species, a statement explains.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022

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