Industrial tequila farms are bad for agave-loving bats

With industrial tequila farms switching to cloned agave plants, the bats that pollinate them are disappearing. “You can’t have tequila without agave, the spiky desert plant used as its base,” says NPR. “And it’s hard to have agave without bats — because a few species of these winged creatures are the plant’s primary pollinators. Agave… » Read More

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