“So what’s really cool with these bats eating their body weight in bugs, which are primarily agricultural pests. Traveling about 60 miles one way to forage over where we have our corn and cotton and sorghum crops,” he said. “They’re going to fly 60 miles, and up to 10,000 feet in altitude, they’re going to eat their body weight in bugs, which is over 150 tons of bugs tonight. And they’re going to come back, nurse their young and do this all over again tomorrow.”
“So what’s really cool with these bats eating their body weight in bugs, which are primarily agricultural pests. Traveling about 60 miles one way to forage over where we have our corn and cotton and sorghum crops,” he said. “They’re going to fly 60 miles, and up to 10,000 feet in altitude, they’re going to eat their body weight in bugs, which is over 150 tons of bugs tonight. And they’re going to come back, nurse their young and do this all over again tomorrow.”
Source: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/bracken-bat-cave-texas-colony-batnado/