Mississippi Business Journal » bat http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Farmers concerned about disease that threatens bats http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/26/farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/26/farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:11 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64325 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Bats, an organic method of pest control, may become rare in the United States and Canada. The primary predators of night-flying insects, bats reduce the need for chemical pesticides and save the agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year in pest-control costs. But bat populations across the Eastern United States are [...]

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