Dwindling bat numbers hindering Minnesota study
Associated Press
July 9, 2018
The number of the bats in Minnesota has seen a steep decline due to white-nose syndrome.
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Officials seeing more Michigan bats infected with rabies
Associated Press
July 5, 2018
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan officials say they’re seeing higher numbers of bats with rabies. The Department of Health and Human Services says its labs had diagnosed 22 bats with the fatal illness as of June
For first time, fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats detected in Wyoming
Staff and News Reports
June 4, 2018
CHEYENNE — Wyoming wildlife researchers working at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Goshen County have detected the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, the first such finding in the state. Testing of skin-swab
From thousands to about 25: Outbreak continues to ravage New Hampshire bat population
Associated Press
April 9, 2018
And for little brown bats, of which only one was found in survey, it will take “close to a century” for the species to recover.
White-nose syndrome in Kansas: Bat disease confirmed in 32nd state
Staff and News Reports
April 3, 2018
Of the more than 1,000 species of bats around the world, 15 have been found in Kansas. Big brown bats are the most common and widespread species in the state and live in Kansas year-round.
Vandals deliver a blow to Michigan bat research project
Michigan DNR
March 27, 2018
DNR wildlife biologists have been working with researchers from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo to field test a treatment for bats and mines in the western Upper Peninsula,
In Alaska, citizen scientists can help keep bat disease at bay
Associated Press
March 20, 2018
JUNEAU, Alaska — America’s bats are in a bad way. Since 2006, a deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) has ravaged bat populations across America, killing an estimated 6 million with as much
Are bats bouncing back in Pennsylvania’s cavern system?
Associated Press
February 8, 2018
HUNTINGDON, Pa. — Officials at a Pennsylvania cave formation say bats have been observed hibernating there for the first time since a fungus nearly wiped out the state’s bat population. Lincoln Caverns coordinator Jennifer Brumbaugh
Researcher: Fungus could wipe out big Alabama bat colony
Associated Press
November 27, 2017
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Georgia researcher who has studied one of Alabama’s biggest bat colonies says it could be all but wiped out within years by the deadly fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Chris Cornelison,
