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The nonprofit is testing out a method where a UV light is set up to attract bugs to bats near the hibernacula, the cool-sounding plural for bat refuges.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024

“They are pretty unique places,” said Rohrer, who collaborates with Beck and has mapped about 30 hibernacula in the Methow Valley.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2017

Dens, or hibernacula, are almost always on south-facing slopes, where the animals can soak up sun when they emerge from their chilly months of hibernation, Beck and his students found.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2017

More and more, this new study, led by Kate Langwig, a graduate student at Boston University, suggests, the bats are spreading themselves out in their roosting caves, their hibernacula.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2012

Box turtles, like nearly all other reptiles occurring at these latitudes, spend the winter in underground hibernacula.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.