White-nose syndrome is the result of a fungus called Pseudogymnoascus destructans that invades and ingests the skin of hibernating bats, including their wings. It causes bats to wake up more ...

According to the National Park Service, researchers call the disease “white-nose syndrome” because of the visible white fungal growth on infected bats’ muzzles and wings. The fungus that ...

In less than a decade, the previously unknown disease dubbed white-nose syndrome — for the characteristic white fuzz it causes on bats' noses and wings — has spread from coast to coast, and is killing ...

A decade after the emergence of white-nose syndrome, bats in national parks and around ... Summer mist-net catches had plummeted, too, and many of the captured bats had scars on their wings from the ...

The bat, a cave myotis, was found to have the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans after researchers conducting surveillance noticed suspicious wing abnormalities ... for WNS for more than a ...

wing membranes, and occasionally tails. The affliction, later dubbed White-nose Syndrome (WNS), had not previously been documented in the US. Thriving in the cold conditions of bat hibernacula, which ...

Winter in the South can bring about a sharp change in conditions that impact forests and their many inhabitants. However, new research finds that, despite these seasonal shifts, forest management ...

White-nose syndrome is being attributed for lower numbers ... their noses and eats away at the delicate membrane of their wings. Bats spread the disease to one another through routine acts such ...

The continued spread of a mysterious disease that has killed thousands of bats in the Northeast United States may ... clothing or gear and contributing to the deadly march of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) ...

The positive sample was collected during a June 2024 surveillance when Game and Fish identified a bat with abnormal wing features ... Pd, which causes white-nose syndrome, is named after the ...