BRACKEN, Texas – You no longer have to travel to the San Antonio area to see the world’s largest bat colony — you can catch the action on your phone or desktop thanks to the Bat Channel.

Bracken Cave, a collapsed sinkhole on the side of a lush limestone hill in southern Texas, is home not only to the world’s largest known bat colony but also to one of the largest concentrations ...

Bracken Bat Cave is owned and operated by BCI. The cave is 650 feet deep and 100 feet wide. At 7:30 each night, BCI members can sit and watch the bats emerge from just a few yards away.

Interestingly enough, however, Texas is actually home to the largest colony of bats in the world, with the Bracken Cave ...

SAN ANTONIO — The Bracken Cave Preserve, about a 40-minute drive from downtown San Antonio, is home to the world's largest bat colony, where millions of bats will emerge and grow in population ...

I first heard about dermestids on a tour of Bracken Cave, the grotto just north of San Antonio that is home to the world’s ...

It’s estimated that the Bracken Cave bat population alone eats 300,000 pounds of insects each night. The bats mainly forage over plots of corn, cotton and sorghum, all important crops for Texans.

The bats of Bracken Cave alone eat 140 tons of bugs—mostly crop pests—per night. As Bracken is a maternity colony, populated almost entirely by pregnant females, ...

Researchers will study eclipse behavior of bats at Bracken Cave. Bracken Cave, which is home to 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats, has a live stream available on its website to watch anytime.

Featuring millions of Mexican free-tailed bats emerging from Bracken Bat Cave near San Antonio at dusk. 🦇 Bat Week is an international, annual celebration to raise awareness about the need for ...

Texas is the summer home for the largest colony of bats in the world. More than 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats live in Bracken Cave, on the northern outskirts of San Antonio, according to TPWD.