The following species have been infected by white-nose syndrome: little brown bat (once the most common bat in the eastern United States), northern long-eared bat (threatened), tricolored bat, Indiana ...

Scientists predict the federally listed Indiana bat will decline to less than 14 percent of its pre-white-nose syndrome numbers by 2022. The disease strikes bats during hibernation, when their immune ...

The endangered Indiana bat has been hammered by WNS ... farmers up to $1.7 million a year in pesticide costs for a crop valued at about $6 million. White-nose syndrome takes its name from Geomyces ...

White-nose syndrome is a fatal disease that has devastated bat populations in parts of the United States and Canada. In a recent study published by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, a ...

Experts provided an update on a disease that had previously wiped out some bats. White-nose Syndrome is a fatal fungal ...

U.S. bat species devastated by white-nose syndrome now listed as endangered The species is among a dozen U.S. bats suffering from white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that causes bats to emerge ...

“This is devastating news for Texas, and a serious blow for our western bat species,” Mike Daulton ... where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University ...

Bats with white-nose syndrome rouse more frequently from their ... including the endangered Indiana and gray bats. A 2010 study in the journal Science predicted that the little brown bat—once ...

A fungal disease threatening the survival of bats throughout the U.S. was found in a southeast New Mexico cave for the first time in the region, and officials are stepping up efforts to prevent ...

The bat count is done each winter to track the health of the population and monitor for the presence of white-nose syndrome and the white fungus blooms that cause it. For years, the annual tally ...

Wisconsin’s bats are seeing a slight resurgence after White-Nose Syndrome depleted populations across the country. The Wisconsin DNR found that bat populations in caves had begun to increase after ...

Craig explained that beginning in the late 2000s, a disease called white-nose syndrome began leaving millions of bats dead each year. “It’s in 25 states and five provinces at this time,” she ...