White-nose fungus found in South Dakota
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 ...
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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 ...
UV light might fight white-nose syndrome
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 ...
Seeking the origin of white-nose syndrome
While researchers still struggle to find precisely where the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in North American bats originated, scientists recently found a ...
Rock climbers help monitor bats and white-nose syndrome
Robert Schorr, a zoologist with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University, was having coffee with a few colleagues, including another bat ...
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 ...
White-nose fungus found in Texas
Biologists have found the fungus that cause white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of bats throughout the United States and Canada, in caves in six ...
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 ...
Study says ‘Unprecedented threats’ to bats in National Parks
Researchers studying bat populations throughout the U.S. national park system say a “strategic conservation response” is needed to protect bats from what they ...
Bats, biscuits, and BBQ: My story of a summer in the South
Living in Maine my whole life, I have spent very little time south of Southern Maine. This is why when given the opportunity to cross over the Piscataqua, and drive ...