Tag: white-nose syndrome

Bats have evolved an intrinsic immunity to coronaviruses that stops them from getting sick, though they still carry the disease. New research shows that the coronavirus that causes Middle East...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Biologists in Arizona became concerned last...

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...

A federal judge last week ruled on a lawsuit over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision to list the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as threatened rather than...

Attics don’t just provide a place to stash old record collections and keepsakes. In Yellowstone National Park, they provide the perfect place for female bats to weather cold summers, and...

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 is offering a $100,000 prize to individuals who develop new ideas that might eradicate or mitigate white-nose syndrome (WNS) as part of a white-nose...

Hoary bat numbers are plummeting in the Pacific Northwest, according to a recent study, raising concerns about the ability of the species to survive throughout the United States as growing...