Greater Houston is home to 11 bat species, all insect-eaters.
Those species are:
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Big brown bat
- Evening bat
- Eastern red bat
- Northern yellow bat
- Eastern pipistrelle
- Hoary bat
- Seminole bat
- Southeastern myotis
- Silver-haired bat
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (state threatened species).
