Eastern Pipistrelle

Pipistrellus subflavus

Description:

Bat

Habitat:

Cave forest

2 Species ID Suggestions

MichaelProffitt 13 years ago

Little Brown Bat

Myotis lucifugus

J.T.Layne 12 years ago

Tri-colored bat

Perimyotis subflavus Species Profiles

11 Comments

AliceGreenup 11 years ago

Very brave to handle a bat, especially in a country where rabies is present.

Ava T-B 11 years ago

Please consider adding this spotting to the new Bat Tracker mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1830...

J.T.Layne 12 years ago

Also handling bats without utilizing the proper preventive measures for disinfection may spread the fungus causing massive bat die-offs (White nose syndrome). http://whitenosebats.wordpress.com/2010/...

LisaPowers 12 years ago

Eastern pipistrelle (Tri-colored bat) Pipistrellus subflavus. And it is never a good idea to handle a bat unless you have had the proper pre-exposure shots...because if you can catch one...it is likely already sick.

KarenL 12 years ago

One to add to the bat monitoring mission!

CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

Wow. Great spotting & how cool to handle a bat.

ESGray 12 years ago

nice picture!

MichaelProffitt 13 years ago

I suggested that it's a little brown bat, but it could also be an Indiana Bat. Indiana Bats are endangered, so the numbers favor the little brown. You may want to avoid handling bats in the future, or at least wearing heavy gloves. Wild mammals can carry diseases, even the cute ones!