How to Use little brown bat in a Sentence

little brown bat

noun

• One of the most at-risk species is the little brown bat.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• The state's two most-common bat species are the little brown bat and the big brown bat.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 26 May 2020
• Carstens alluded to a 2018 study he was involved in about the little brown bat.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
• The little brown bat — that’s its official name — is known for doing this.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Reimer has held in her hands little brown bats from the Northwest Territories to the Tanana River.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
• The little brown bat population has declined by up to 90% in Vermont.
  — USA TODAY, 25 June 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
• Back at Fort Drum, for instance, the little brown bat maternal colony seemed headed for extinction.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 18 June 2018
• One of those colonies today includes nearly 200 little brown bat mothers and babies.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 18 June 2018
• 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
• This cave, for example, used to be filled with a different type of bat, one that until white-nose arrived was the most common bat species in the northeast: the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus).
  — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• The Great Lakes office considers nine regional species to be higher priorities for listing, including the little brown bat, the Illinois chorus frog, and the golden-winged warbler, Nordstrom says.
  — Farah Eltohamy, Animals, 15 Dec. 2020
• Alaska’s little brown bats may be saved from the disease because their adventurous ancestors chose extreme isolation.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024