Utah has just seven fringed myotis records since 2000, and six come from San Juan, Grand, and Emery counties, canyon country riddled with cliff crevices, caves, and old mine tunnels this bat uses for roosting by day. It hunts moths and beetles at night, sometimes gleaning prey directly off vegetation instead of only catching insects in flight, and can live surprisingly long for its size, up to 18 years in the wild.
Only one of those records came from iNaturalist and the rest through GBIF, since fringed myotis are hard to identify without a hand net or acoustic detector. All of them fall between June and August, the season when mist-net and acoustic surveys run, and that’s too few records to show anything firmer about timing. NatureServe ranks it S3, vulnerable, in Utah.
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