Long-eared myotis carry noticeably larger ears than most of Arizona’s other small brown bats, an adaptation that helps them pick up faint echoes while gleaning moths and beetles directly off foliage rather than only catching insects in open air. Arizona’s records since 2000 come from Coconino and Navajo counties in the north, where conifer forest gives them the kind of understory hunting ground this style of foraging depends on.
There are only 7 of those records, all from June through August and 5 of them in July, too few to show more than a summer presence. Arizona’s occurrence count sits in the rare tier statewide, consistent with a forest bat that’s active well after dark and easy to miss even where it’s genuinely present.
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