Sentences with phrase «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.

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

For more on bats and white nose syndrome, see Merlin D. Tuttle's book America's Neighborhood Bats, David Quammen's article «Bat Crash» in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic, the Fort Collins Science Center website on «White - Nose Syndrome Threatens the Survival of Hibernating Bats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «Geomyces.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Virus hit Missouri in 2010 Two years ago, Missouri biologists surveying caves and other sites where animals hibernate saw signs suggesting the presence of white - nose fungus on resting bats.

Last year, data emerged indicating the same fungus inhabits caves and other sites where bats hibernate in Europe — and probably has been part of their ecosystems for hundreds of years, if not millennia.

Such research projects are important, he says, to establish whether nascent signs of recovery in a few early - hit North American hibernating sites are anomalous, are signs that some bats are developing immunity to the fungus — or merely represent stragglers that the fungus has yet to find.

In the mean time, Missouri stepped up its surveys of bat - hibernating sites.

Non-migratory species of bat typically hibernate through the winter months, so they do not need to adjust their foraging behaviour to survive.

After hibernating in refrigeratorlike chambers containing the compound, which is produced by a soil bacterium (a strain of Rhodococcus rhodochrous), diseased little brown and northern long - eared bats emerged healthy.

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).

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.

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.

WNS infects the skin of bats while they hibernate.

The fungus can infect nearly every bat in a hibernating colony by the end of the winter.

The purpose of her research is to support data - driven surveillance strategies and management options for mitigating impacts of WNS on hibernating bat populations.

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.

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.

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.