Northern Myotis

The Northern Myotis has adapted extra large ears—giving them the competitive edge to better navigate(using echolocation) through dense forests that many other bat species have to avoid.

These bats, like all cave bats, are only spotted during the summer, as they spend winters hibernating.

Northern Myotis like to form small maternity colonies in the cracks and crevices of trees, where mothering bats gather to birth and raise young together as a community.

This species averages a 9-inch wing span and a 2-inch long body.