The tricolored bat is one of the first species to emerge each evening, usually having two foraging bouts per night, one beginning soon after sunset and another around midnight. This bat has an erratic, fluttery flight pattern while foraging, and can attain a flight speed of 11.6 miles per hour in the open. The tricolored bat can catch prey at a rate of one insect every two seconds, increasing its body mass as much as 25 percent in just thirty minutes. So how fast do they have to eat to consume 1