The common pipistrelle is one of the most common British bats.<\/p>\n
They are the species people are most likely to spot in their gardens, with each one eating thousands of insects a night.<\/p>\n
The common and soprano pipistrelle, also found in the UK, were only identified as separate species in the 1990s, according to the Bat Conservation Trust. <\/p>\n
They look similar and the easiest way to tell them apart is from the frequency of their echolocation calls.<\/p>\n
Common pipistrelles feed in habitats including woods, hedges, grassland, farms, suburban and urban areas.<\/p>\n
They usually come out about 20 minutes after sunset and fly 2m to 10m (6.5ft to 33ft) above ground searching for food, which they eat on the wing.<\/p>\n
Summer roosts of common pipistrelles are often found in crevices around the outside of newer buildings.<\/p>\n
They can be found behind hanging tiles, between roofing felt and roof tiles or in cavity walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The common pipistrelle is one of the most common British bats. They are the species people are most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-287933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}