Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Cityscape

Cityscape
by deji_01

Deji 01 has captured the evening mass exodus of Mexican Free-Tailed bats from underneath the Waugh Street bridge. Did you know that the largest colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats can be found at Bracken Cave, north of San Antonio, Texas? The Bracken Cave bats have a population of nearly 20 million bats and can eat up to 250 tons of insects per night! While our bats don't number 20 million, there are quite a few and they do their share to reduce the insect population.

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