This article describes finding little brown bats in areas where we thought they'd all (or pretty much all) died out. The assumption is that these may represent populations of resistant bats, which would be great news, especially if there's enough of them to effectively repopulate (though bats don't reproduce all that fast; being a flighted mammal ( Read more... )

I came home to find we had a houseguest:


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If you've been following the saga of white-nose disease, you may have heard that New York and Massachusets have lost the vast majority of their bats already. The disease is spreading south and west, and it's in VA now. Even though it isn't completely clear how the fungus causes bat deaths, folks are starting to try treating caves of hibernating ( Read more... )