HABITAT & DIET: Brown long-eared bats listen to the sounds of insects and pick them off leaves and twigs on trees and bushes, scanning the foliage in an upward direction. They occasionally glean from grass or even the ground. They feed in open deciduous and coniferous woodland, parkland and gardens. They do not normally forage very far away from their roosts. Their prey includes spiders, moths, beetles and earwigs.

© Jon Russ 2001. Text refereed by Angela Ross & Lynne Rendle.

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