Green Options » bat hibernation sites http://greenoptions.com/tag/bat-hibernation-sites Posts tagged 'bat hibernation sites' Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:43:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Mystery Malady Killing NE Bats http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/22/mystery-malady-killing-ne-bats/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/22/mystery-malady-killing-ne-bats/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:43:18 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/22/mystery-malady-killing-ne-bats/ A North American bat. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Chinshaw.)Bats across New York state are dying from a mysterious malady known as “white-nose syndrome.”

Named for the white fungal growth that appears around the noses of infected bats, the condition has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of bats in the Northeastern U.S., mostly in New York but now spreading to other states as well.

The syndrome was first discovered last year in four bat hibernating caves near Albany. It’s now been observed at “virtually every significant bat hibernation site in New York,” according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

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