Tag: white-nose syndrome

Big brown bats may be taking over the ecological food niche of little brown bats due to the latter’s greater susceptibility to a deadly fungal pathogen. “We’ve gone from a...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently strengthened Endangered Species Act protections for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), upgrading the species from a threatened to endangered status. The species,...

Indiana bats and northern long-eared bats coexist in central Indiana, but the populations of these two imperiled species are falling. To better protect them, researchers wanted to understand how they...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing tricolored bats as federally endangered due to the widespread impact of the deadly white-nose syndrome. Tricolored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) are found...

Wildlife managers looking to prevent widespread losses of bats to white-nose syndrome need to treat the fungal disease early and intensely. White-nose syndrome, a deadly disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus...

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...

Conservationists coping with the spread of the deadly white-nose syndrome are finding innovative solutions by thinking inside the box. Wooden bat boxes work as artificial roosts for bats in areas...

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....

A little air-conditioning might help some bat populations better resist a deadly fungal pathogen. Bat populations have been dropping drastically due to white-nose syndrome across the eastern and central United...

Research on bat populations in North America reveals how much they are declining in areas impacted by white-nose syndrome. The fungal disease has destroyed entire populations of bats in the...