bats
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 - 8:37 am
A bat hair colonized by Geomyces destructans under a microscope. Photo via Wikipedia.
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reported on Saturday that scientists have proven that bats across the county are being killed by an odd, cold-loving fungus called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 4:33 pm
Above: A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome symptoms. Via the Flickr page of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.
Phil Brown of the Adirondack Almanack posted a story yesterday about his visit to New York state's largest bat... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Bat skull and remains in a site affected by White-Nose Syndrome. Photo by Ann Froschauer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The bad news about bats just keeps getting worse. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010 - 12:49 pm
There might finally be a scientific breakthrough in the case of the Great Bat Die-off, a plague caused by a bizzare cold-loving fungus that has slaughtered a million bats over the past four hibernation seasons.
It's not quite the polio vaccine, however.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 3:44 pm
In today's New York Times: A number of states are thinking about banning felt-soled waders, a piece of gear that's perfect for keeping anglers steady on their feet -- and also for transporting the noxious microscopic algae known as didymo, or "rock snot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:02 pm
A paper published in the prestigious research journal Science on August 6 makes a dire prediction: The little brown bat, the Northeast's most common bat and an important species in the ecology of the region, could become extinct in the region within 16... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 10:21 am
The Vermont-based Center for Biological Diversity informed Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday that they are suing the government on behalf of two bat species that have been decimated by a mysterious fungus. From the press release... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 10:35 pm
DEC biologist Carl Herzog is speaking at SUNY New Paltz on Thursday about the great American bat die-off. From the Hudson Valley Geologist:
If you don't know, bats have been dying off in record numbers locally (and throughout the northeast) from a fungal... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 - 10:21 pm
White-nose fungus has decimated bat populations in the Northeast over the last few years. Bucknell University bat ecologist DeeAnn Reeder isn't holding out much hope for most of our native bats:
I think within several years there will be practically no... Read more
