Wisconsin Preps for Bat WNS
The fungal disease of bats known as white nose syndrome (WNS) is heading West. According to Sounding the Alarm for Bat Health by Meg Jones:
“For now, Wisconsin’s bat population is hale and hearty. But a devastating fungus is racing through cave-dwelling bat populations in eastern states and it’s headed this way. White-nose syndrome has now killed an estimated 1 million bats, and experts say it could reach Wisconsin within two to three years.”
For a video report on the fight against WNS see Bat Man vs. White Nose.
FWS Map of WNS in the Northeast
Bat with WNS (Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS)
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