Looking through the most recent literature on white-nose syndrome isn’t exactly reassuring, although it does suggest that progress is being made in understanding how the fungus affects bats and what conditions may help bats survive infection. As of last year, at least 19 US states and 4 Canadian provinces contained infected bats (Blehert 2012) and […]
Archive for the ‘hibernacula’ Tag
If the fungus can’t take the heat (or cold), will it leave the bat alone?
Losing our insect control
Over the past week, I’ve been looking into when and how scientists first became aware of white-nose syndrome in northeast bats, as well as what the loss of those bats could mean for all of us. It’s pretty depressing reading on the whole- especially when you realize that it has developed so quickly. What were […]