Named sites barely register among Florida’s 175 evening bat records: Camp Blanding Military Reservation logs 2, and Big Cypress National Preserve, Withlacoochee State Forest, and a few state parks log 1 each. Most reports come instead from the Tampa and Orlando areas, led by Hillsborough, Seminole, and Orange counties, which says more about where people notice bats than about where the species is scarce.
June produces the year’s highest report count, followed by July. Bat detection is strongly tied to survey effort and roost-monitoring schedules, so a June peak in records doesn’t necessarily mean June is when evening bats are actually most active.
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