Join Joy O'Keefe, associate professor and wildlife extension specialist, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, for a lively discussion on the challenges facing imperiled bat populations.
Bats are essential to a healthy ecosystem, as they eat insects that are pests to trees, crops, and us. Most bats use trees as their daytime roosts during spring, summer, and fall. If you have good places for bats to hunt for food, how do you attract them to roost in forests? Learn what makes good natural and artificial roost habitats for bats and other ways to support your local bat populations.
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Presenter Bio
Dr. O’Keefe is an associate professor and wildlife extension specialist in natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has been studying bats for over 25 years. Her research program tackles applied questions and yields solutions to conservation challenges facing imperiled bat populations. Currently she works in Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana, but has previously studied bats in Florida, Minnesota, and spent many years studying bats on national forest and national park lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
