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Wed Apr 17 16:07:49 PDT 2013
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I live in NW Georgia and I have not seen a bat in a decade..
In a message dated 4/17/2013 12:36:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Ladadams at aol.com writes:
From: lstritch at fs.fed.us
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Subj: FW: Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats in Pennsylvania
have died, say biologists ; Natural news 4/15/2013
From: Prendusi, Teresa -FS
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Subject: FW: Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats in Pennsylvania
have died, say biologists ; Natural news 4/15/2013
This is so tragic.
Teresa Prendusi, Regional Botanist
U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Region
324 25th St., Ogden UT 84401
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From: Frisbee, Christine -FS
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Subject: FW: Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats in Pennsylvania
have died, say biologists ; Natural news 4/15/2013
My heart is breaking over this..
Chris Frisbee
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Klamath National Forest
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From: Terry Seyden [mailto:terryseyden at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 6:46 AM
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Subject: Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in
Pennsylvania, say biologists ; Natural news 4/15/2013
Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in Pennsylvania,
say biologists
Monday, April 15, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
_http://www.naturalnews.com/039916_bats_white-nose_syndrome_die-off.html_
(http:///)
(NaturalNews) They serve a critical role in pollinating crops, killing
insects, and fertilizing soil, but their presence throughout the state of
Pennsylvania is in a disastrously serious decline. According to a new report by
PhillyBurbs.com, 99.99 percent of bats living in Pennsylvania's second
largest bat habitat were recently discovered to be dead, and a cohort of
biologists currently studying the issue estimates that a shocking 98 percent of
bats living throughout the entire state of Pennsylvania are now dead as
well.
For many generations, tens of thousands of bats have made their home at an
old abandoned iron ore mine in the Upper Bucks area of Central
Pennsylvania. At least six different bat species resided in the mine, which has long
been a key hibernation spot for bats during the cold winter months. But a
recent inspection of the mine revealed that a mere handful of the
approximately 10,000 bats that were believed to have lived there previously are now
gone, and most of the few remaining bats are ill with a disease that will
likely kill them.
It is known officially as white-nose syndrome, and experts are not
entirely sure how or from where it emerged. But it causes a white fungus to form
around the noses of infected bats, and eventually causes them to lose the
necessary fat they need on their bodies to survive. In the end, white-nose
syndrome causes bats to die of starvation, a phenomenon that has been
observed all across the Northeast.
"Going to places where there used to be tens of thousands of _bats_
(http://www.naturalnews.com/bats.html) hibernating, and then going in and seeing
only a few bats -- only a few stragglers left -- that's very difficult,"
said Pennsylvania Game Commission Biologist Greg Turner to PhillyBurbs.com.
Turner has been studying the swift decline of bats throughout
_Pennsylvania_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/Pennsylvania.html) for several years now,
and is currently working with a team of scientists to figure out how to
address it.
During his recent visit to the mine, which is located in Durham, Turner
found only three surviving species of bats among 23 living bats. Eighteen of
them were determined to be little brown bats, and half of these were
observed to have the strange white fungus around their noses. Many of these same
bats were also seen to be crowding around the entrance of the mine, another
indication that they are also infected with the disease.
White-nose syndrome has also been observed in a cave in Alabama, according
to a recent Reuters report. The Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge near
Huntsville currently houses about 1.6 million protected gray bats, which are
an endangered species, but experts worry that because the fungus has now
been detected there, the "single most significant hibernating area in the
world for the species" may soon become decimated as well.
Loss of bats means influx of insects
Bats are often referred to as the "farmer's friend" because they spend
much of their time during the spring and summer months feeding on insects,
many of which harm crops. A single bat, according to PhillyBurbs.com, can
consume up to 900,000 insects per year, which means bats also help protect
humans against diseases like West Nile virus by eating the mosquitoes and
other insects that spread them.
Without bats, in other words, there will be no predator to keep the insect
population in check, which means summers will be extremely buggy,
especially in wet and wooded areas of the country like Pennsylvania.
"White-nose syndrome is arguably the most devastating wildlife disease
we've faced," says Michael T. Rains, Director of the U.S. Forest Service's
Northern Research Station.
Sources for this article include:
_http://www.phillyburbs.com_
(http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/palisades/all-but-of-bats-in-durham-bat-mine-have-died/article_19e44845-452b-5ffe-ba71-
110122304402.html)
_http://www.huffingtonpost.com_
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/fern-cave-national-wildlife-refuge-al_n_3040896.html)
_http://articles.philly.com_
(http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-08/news/38376470_1_geomyces-white-nose-syndrome-fungus)
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