I first heard about dermestids on a tour of Bracken Cave, the grotto just north of San Antonio that is home to the world’s ...

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Bracken Bat Cave, northeast of San Antonio, is the summer home of about 20 million insect-eating Mexican free-tailed bats. Bats don't always get the respect they deserve, especially Mexican free ...

Texas' Bracken Cave Preserve is truly remarkable not only for the sheer amount of bats that reside there during the spring ...

Bracken Cave, in Comal County just north of San Antonio, is home to the world's largest bat colony. From March to October, as many as 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats huddle in the cave during ...

SAN ANTONIO — The Bracken Cave Preserve, about a 40-minute drive from downtown San Antonio, is home to the world's largest bat colony, where millions of bats will emerge and grow in population ...

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Bracken Cave has also become a maternity colony for the bats. Every year millions migrate here just to give birth. The bats have used this cave so long, Hutchins said the guano is more than 100' deep.

The Bracken Cave Preserve north of San Antonio is home to an estimated 20 million Mexican Free-tailed bats that are vital to our ecosystem. A KSAT crew visited the cave recently to get an up-close ...

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More than 15 million Mexican free-tail bats live in the Bracken Cave, located on the northern outskirts of the San Antonio area in Comal County.

Researchers will be at Bracken Cave on eclipse day to see what happens, Hutchins said. A group from Texas A&M will be watching to see how raptors, like red-tailed hawks, react to the eclipse, too.