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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...