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In New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out each summer evening and eat about three tons of insects, mostly moths and beetles, while Texas colonies intercept corn earworm moths above cotton country

In New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out each summer evening and eat about three tons of insects, mostly moths and beetles, while Texas colonies intercept corn earworm moths above cotton country