Sentences with phrase «hibernating bats with»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

For example, the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), which is smaller than a thumb, hibernates in caves around 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit with 90 percent humidity, an ideal setting for the fungus, according to laboratory tests.

And though bats are classically associated with Halloween, all but some of the more hardy species will have migrated to their hibernating spaces by this time of year.