Tag: fungus

Southern Georgia doesn’t have many caves, so bats there need to find other places to hibernate. For some the solution is culverts—tunnels that channel water underneath roads.  But researchers worried...

Citing the escalation of white-nose syndrome, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify the threatened northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act....

The deadly white-nose syndrome has wiped out almost all northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) and tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) in North America in the past...

Tests have confirmed the presence of the fungus that causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats for the first time in Montana. The presence Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd, was confirmed...

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome doesn’t decay in North American caves during the summer the way it does in Europe and Asia, researchers found, allowing it to build up...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has confirmed a case of white-nose syndrome in a Texas bat for the first time. Although the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which causes the disease,was...

Some bats are developing adaptations to white-nose syndrome that allow them to survive the deadly disease, according to a recent study. Comparing little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) that died from...

Researchers have pinpointed a fungal disease previously unknown to science as the culprit responsible for eroding the shells of freshwater turtles. “By causing damage to the shell, it essentially could...

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome has turned up for the first time in South Dakota. The National Park Service reports that the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans was found on five...

The fungus that causes deadly white-nose syndrome in bats can’t repair damage from ultraviolet light, prompting researchers to consider using it as a tool to fight the fungus. “Generally, the...