Rare cuckoo bee’s known range expands in Canada
Like the cuckoo bird, the rare macropis cuckoo bee (Epeoloides pilosulus) sneaks its eggs into the nests of another species and lets the unwitting host raise its ...
DNA sequencing
Mystery of WNS spread solved using DNA sequencing
In March 2016, a little brown bat found sick near North Bend, Washington, tested positive for white-nose syndrome (WNS), an invasive disease caused by the fungus ...
White-nose fungus in Washington state likely originated in eastern US
This past spring, white-nose syndrome, a disease that’s caused the death of over 5 million bats in the U.S. so far, jumped from the eastern U.S., where it had ...