The Economic Times

America's only pesticide-free rice farm? 250,000 bats replace pesticides at this California rice farm every single night

Bats protect rice farm: Every night, approximately 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bats take flight from the Yolo Causeway bridge, playing a crucial role in the ecosystem. They devour large quantities of harmful insects that threaten local rice crops, thus sparing farmers the expense of insecticides.