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Deadly fungas killing bats.
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:49 pm
by mike
There is an article in CBSnews.com, "Fatal Fungus Killing Bats at Alarming Rate". You can read the story here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/ ... 2292.shtml
The Catskills have had a terrible problem with bugs this year. Bats are now a rare sighting.
Re: Deadly fungas killing bats.
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:49 pm
by mike
Another report on cbsnews.com stated that last year there were 950 bats in the largest bat cave in the northeast. This year there was only one left. Very sad.
Re: Deadly fungas killing bats.
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:45 pm
by dave
I understand that they are going to try and introduce some Little Brown Bats back into one of the largest caves. they imported them in from Wisconsin. They also put up screens over the caves to prevent them from flying out into the cold winter air. They are not sure if it will work, but it should answer a lot of questions. A small step, but it will be progress.