V dannoy knige osveshchayutsya voprosy rasprostraneniya, biologii i ekologii 10 vidov rukokrylykh, otmechennykh na issleduemoy territorii (basseyn reki Vyatki). Rassmatrivayutsya kharakter prebyvaniya, chislennost', pitanie, voprosy razmnozheniya, predpochitaemye ubezhishcha i okhrannyy status. V knige soderzhitsya obzor istorii issledovaniy dannoy gruppy, privodyatsya original'nye dannye po biologii. Kniga illyustrirovana kartami-skhemami i avtorskimi fotografiyami. Prednaznachena dlya zoologov, studentov biologicheskikh spetsial'nostey VUZov i prochikh lyubiteley prirody.