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Behind the myths and midnight flights, bats keep our ecosystems balanced. In fact, one bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour!  🦟 They also help spread seeds and pollinate plants like bananas, mangoes, avocados, and agave. This Halloween, let’s rewrite their spooky story. Bats aren’t scary, they’re essential.

This month, Leave the Leaves to help birds and pollinators! Fallen leaves give essential pollinators and birds a vital cold weather habitat. You can help them survive the winter and give them a cozy home, by leaving leaves in certain areas around your home, church or business. It may seem small, but each effort and act helps! To learn more, click here.

As autumn settles in, hummingbirds in the south are on one of the most important journeys of their lives — migrating thousands of miles to survive the colder weather that’s destined to come. Please help them this year by: placing feeders outside, keeping feeders cleaned and filled, use natural and artificial dye-free nectar, and do not apply or use pesticides in your yard or around your home. They depend on us to give them a safe place to rest their wings, sip chemical-free n