Only two named sites turn up in Florida’s 334 seminole bat records, Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, each with a single logged record. All 334 records come from GBIF rather than iNaturalist, and that thin site list isn’t a full picture of the bat’s actual range, which NatureServe rates S4, apparently secure, statewide.
Reports jump sharply in July, reaching 87, more than double any other month, with May and June also running high as the surge builds through early summer. That midsummer spike likely tracks bat activity and observer effort together, not population size.
