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It is theorized that the bats may mistake the turbine blades for trees when they are migrating and reproducing since more dead bats are found underneath turbines in the summer and fall.

Deputies were alerted to the latest encounter on Nov. 27 when the concerned Lakeland mother called for help after finding the dead bat in a bag. FILE – A little brown bat roosts on tree bark.