Colorado bat swarms may be vulnerable to white-nose syndrome
As humans continue to social distance to stop the spread of COVID-19, swarms of bats in Colorado haven’t taken the hint that gathering together could facilitate ...
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White-nose fungus found in Wyoming
Wildlife researchers have confirmed the first Wyoming case of a bat with the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) was ...
Alberta bat hibernation site discovered away from mountains
Greg Horne and his fellow cave explorers had just gotten out of a truck from an all-day trip from Edmonton to the northern boreal forest of Alberta, but their ...
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 ...
JWM study: Wind farms in Canada kill tens of thousands of bats
Each wind turbine in Canada kills an average of 15.5 bats per year, adding up to a death toll that could someday threaten populations, according to new research. In ...
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 ...
White-nose syndrome jumps to western US
A little brown bat in North Bend, Washington, has been confirmed to have white-nose syndrome (WNS), making it the farthest western case of the deadly bat disease ...