Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York’s Bat Population

U.S. Army Biologist Inspecting a Brown Bat at Fort Drum New York’s brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been confirmed in 14 states, 2 Canadian provinces, and appears from a recent survey to be spreading in New York State. New York and Vermont have lost more than 90%of their bats, threatening populations with total extinction or a best case scenario of hundreds of years of recove… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York’s Bat Population

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