Safety note: May carry rabies — do not approach or handle.
The Seminole Bat is a rich mahogany-red bat of the southeastern United States closely related to the eastern red bat, with which it was once lumped as a single species. It favors Spanish moss for its solitary day roosts, often hanging within dense moss clumps high in live oaks. Seminole bats are year-round residents in the Deep South, unlike the migratory eastern red bat.
Habitat
Southeastern coastal plain forests and wetland edges
Diet
Beetles, moths, and flying insects
How common
Uncommon
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