Sentences with phrase «hibernating bats»

Fungus is killing millions of hibernating bats in North America, and the resulting disease is spreading.

The first sign that something was up emerged in February 2006, when a caver photographed hibernating bats with white muzzles at Howe's Cave in Albany, New York state.

I participate in the management of the land, at the field station and other university - owned areas: a regionally significant wetland, a virgin prairie remnant, an abandoned iron mine that's an important site for hibernating bats.

Millions of hibernating bats from six species have been infected with the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd.

16, 290 (2010)-RSB- which reports that Gd was found on a single bat in France and another In Press (Wibbelt et al.) that shows a wider distribution of Gd on several hibernating bat species in Europe.

(That's certainly one interpretation of a study released April 9 on hibernating bats experimentally exposed to each strain of the fungus: It found the European strain was more virulent, which would be one response of a fungus that evolved to successfully continue to infect heavily resistant bats.)

Named for the white fuzz that appears on the nose, wings and tail, the disease frequently causes hibernating bats to wake from the inert state, according to the Wisconsin officials.

It thrives at low temperatures — a trait that fit with Hicks's observation that only hibernating bats seemed to be affected by the disease, which came to be known as white - nose syndrome.

Kate Langwig climbs out of a mine in New York state after examining hibernating bats for white - nose syndrome.

Millions of hibernating bats from six species have been infected with the fungus Pseudogymnoascus...

Joan Cartan - Hansen showed scientists at work in an underground chamber at an old power plant in Idaho, swabbing the forearms and noses of hibernating bats in search of evidence for a deadly fungus that has been killing millions of bats across the nation.

Since the winter and early spring of 2006, huge numbers of hibernating bats have contracted the skin - digesting infection (SN: 9/10/11).

The biologists had been conducting winter surveys throughout the Canadian province for two years, monitoring the health of hibernating bats.

Many populations of hibernating bats have died off shortly after encountering a new, virulent fungal infection known as white nose syndrome.

The research team scoured the «junk» sections of five animal genomes?elephant, hibernating bat, orca and dolphin, naked mole rat and thirteen - lined ground squirrel?to identify regions that evolved rapidly.

Since it was first discovered in hibernating bats in New York in winter 2006 - 07, WNS has spread across 22 states, including Ohio.

In March 2009 a hibernating bat with a white spot on its muzzle — otherwise in apparently good health — was found in France, the first confirmed sighting of the fungus outside of North America.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 — 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

Yet researchers have also found carcasses of cave - hibernating bats, including the little brown bat and the northern long - eared myotis — two species that have been devastated by the fungal disease white nose syndrome and that are now being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 - 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical model.

Although our data were focused on a single species, this disease is threatening the entire fauna of hibernating bats.

White Nose Syndrome is known to affect all six species of hibernating bats that occur in the northeastern U.S. and has recently been confirmed in three other species — making the total number of species affected at nine.

Hibernating bats in Havran, near Turkey's Aegean coast, can rest easy this winter, thanks to a decision by local authorities to hold off on pumping water into a nearby dam reservoir, an action that would have flooded their cave.