Sentences with phrase «bats during hibernation»

This fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, infects bats during hibernation causing a disease called white - nose syndrome.

P. destructans can only infect bats during hibernation because it has a strict temperature growth range of about 39 - 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

The study will measure the survival of little brown bats during hibernation after being treated with UV - light compared to control groups.

The researchers hope that a bacterial spray applied to bats during hibernation could suppress the fungus enough to help the bats survive the winter.

«The idea would be to apply the bacteria on bats during hibernation and see if it suppresses the growth of the fungus,» Kilpatrick said.

Not exact matches

Ecologist Kate Langwig of Boston University and her colleagues want Eastern bats to listen up: No more cuddling — at least during hibernation.

Do the bats» immune systems just take longer to boot up during hibernation?

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

During hibernation, the body temperatures of bats drop to the cold ambient temperatures of their «hibernacula» (the caves and abandoned mines where the bats hibernate).

The fungus that causes white - nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) grows on the exposed skin of bats» noses, ears, and wings during hibernation, when the bats» body temperatures drop.

White - nose syndrome fungus can infect an entire bat colony during hibernation, but surviving bats are able to clear the infection after they become active again

Additionally, bats may have a suppressed immune system during hibernation.

Scientists hypothesize that bat deaths from the fungus are caused by them being roused during hibernation.