Natural History Wanderings

YubaNet.com reported on a University of Colorado Denver study that found more than 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines in 2012, a serious blow to creatures who pollinate crops and help control flying insects, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Denver.

Bats have important economic impacts including controlling flying insects like mosquitoes and pollinating commercial crops, flowers and various cacti. By having the turbines only spinning at higher wind speeds, when bats don’t fly, could decrease fatalities.

Read more at YubaNet: Study shows wind turbines killed 600,000 bats last year.