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DORSET, Vt. — Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir.The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went into hibernation last fall. Now, in early May,...
Scientists studying bat species that have been hit hard by the fungus that causes white nose syndrome say there is a glimmer of good news against the disease that has killed millions of bats across North America.
White nose syndrome has killed 90% or more of the bat population in parts of North America.
Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures stir.
The little brown bats, survivors of a deadly fungus that decimated their population, went into hibernation last fall. Now in early May, they're waking, detaching from their rock wall roosts and making their first tentative flights in search of the moths, beetles and flying aquatic insects they devour.