"A common sight in night skies, bat now faces extinction in N.E." by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | August 6, 2010
A deadly disease is destroying Northeast bat populations so rapidly that one of New England’s most common species will probably disappear within 20 years, scientists at Boston University and other researchers concluded in a study published yesterday.
The regional extinction of the little brown bat, which has the phenomenal ability to eat its body weight in insects every night, would wipe out a predator of many garden and agricultural pests and mosquitoes....
I guess that's why you needed all the spraying this year, Massachusetts.
See: Massachusetts Mosquito Bite
No bats to eat 'em.
White-nose syndrome is named for a fungus that appears on the nose, wings, and other body parts of hibernating bats. Scientists believe the fungus irritates bats so greatly they wake up during hibernation, expending precious body fat in the process. Many of the flying mammals then leave caves and mines, only to die as they search for food in barren winter landscapes.
No one knows where the fungus, called Geomyces destructans, came from, although it may have been inadvertently introduced into the New York cave by humans, who are not harmed by it....
Un-flipping-real!!
Yup, YOU are to blame for EVERYTHING, human!
What an agenda-pushing PoS!
Yeah, it COULDN'T BE the CHEMICALS were DUMPING on them or the GMO MONSTERS screwing up nature!
Around the world, infectious diseases have caused extraordinary declines in other species, including Latin American frogs being wiped out by another type of fungus, and Tasmanian devils disappearing because of cancerous facial tumors. Some frog populations have already collapsed, and scientists fear other amphibians and the Tasmanian devil could become extinct.
Related: Around Asia: In a Land Down Under
Oh, they found more frogs?
I'm more worried about the deformities.
Also see: Origins of Tasmanian devil cancer found
Does she not read her own paper, or is the agenda-pushing omission a willful thing.
Because of concerns that humans can spread white-nose syndrome, authorities have closed many of the nation’s caves and mines to tourists and the cavers who explore crevices and tunnels deep in the earth.
Campers and hikers have also noticed the end of the nightly ritual of bats emerging from summer roosts to feed on insects....
Come to think of it I have rarely seen any bats the last few years -- not after the ones that were living in the attack got into the house.
Also see: Animals Advance the Agenda: Bats in the Boston Globe Belfrey
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