It’s that time of year when the pumpkins are carved, the witches are brewing, and the bats fly around at night. Actually, the bats are flying all the time around the world - helping our environment by eating up insects that attack food crops and forests, saving farmers and forest managers billions of dollars each year. But bats do more than that too. There are more than 1,400 species of bats—that’s almost 20 percent of all mammal species. About 70% of bats eat insects, and other bats eat pollen, nectar, or fruit—these bats are vital for pollinating flowers and spreading seeds that grow new plants and trees. So we are celebrating the bat and all they have to offer the planet with an art contest. The contest is open to students all over, and you could win your very own bat house. Who wouldn’t want to be neighbors with these high-flying mammals?