- Like most other types of bats, Indiana Bats feed on small insects, therefore controlling the bug population. Since the bugs destroy farm crops, Indiana Bats are important to farmers to maintain healthy crops. Farmers save millions of dollars a year on pesticides that will repel bugs when bats are able to control the population.
- As less pesticides are used, the environment remains healthier and more in tact, allowing more Indiana Bats to nest in the summer.
- Another thing that Indiana Bats are very helpful because they feed off of mosquitoes. The mosquitoes they eat can carry many disease including Malaria.