An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left caves littered with the bones of ...

Bat poop is also an essential source of nutrients in cave environments supporting salamanders, fish, crayfish and other unique creatures. In less than a decade, the previously unknown disease dubbed ...

does an annoying fungal infection develop into full-blown white-nose syndrome? Again, nobody knows. Bats don't fly across the Atlantic, so if Geomyces destructansreached Howes Cave from Europe ...

Most cave bats in Indiana are listed as state endangered animal and face unprecedented death rates due to white nose syndrome. A majority of Indiana’s migratory tree bats are species of special ...

White-nose syndrome is being attributed for lower numbers in an annual bat count with the state’s Department of Natural Resources. The fungus causing the disease dwells in caves and mines ...

Pre-white-nose, I would usually catch 20 to 50 bats a night. It’s awful.” In other parts of the country, especially regions with caves, tunnels, or abandoned mines, dead bats around a single large ...