White Honduran Tent-making Bats: Frog Heaven, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — There are two species of Tent-making Bats in Costa Rica. White and Brown. The Whites are called “Honduran” from where they were first studied, but they are common throughout Central America. Tent-making bats, as the name might suggest, eat away at the spines of broad leaved plants so that the leaves collapse into a tent, where the bats roost while not hunting. It was just beginning to get dark when our guide at Frog Heaven took us to see them, so they would have been out and away any time. Generally you have to get way down low to see up under the leaf, but these had found a leaf well above our heads…the easiest Tent-making Bats I have ever photographed. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 127mm equivalent. Aperture Preferred at f5.6. By the light of the guide’s flashlight. Processed in Photomator and PictureQuality.