Posted by Laurie Sullivan at 5/13/2013

Local bat expert Leslie Sturges visited Barrett with two live bats!The third graders learned many fascinating facts about bats and how important bats are to plants and animals, including people. We also learned about the devastation of white-nose syndrome on the bat population here in Virginia. http://whitenosesyndrome.org/about-white-nose-syndrome. You can read about Sturges’ organization, The Save Lucy (a Little Brown Bat) Campaign here: http://savelucythebat.org Do you see the tiny bat in Leslie’s hand below?Bat eating a mealworm.