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10 Years of White-nose Syndrome on Canada’s Bats: An Update
It has now been almost 10 years since white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungal disease of hibernating bats, was first found in Canada. There are 19 species of bats in Canada,…
Watch: The impact of White-nose Syndrome
In 2014, Striking Balance filmed Don McAlpine (Research Curator at the New Brunswick Museum) and myself for a documentary that aired this past weekend on TVO. It shows the impact…
Stop the spread: New decontamination protocol for bat caves
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative just released a new national decontamination protocol for spelunkers to try to limit spread of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats. WNS…
Silver-haired Bats May Be Carriers of WNS Causing Fungus
[PHOTO: Pseudogymnoascus destructans isolates] A single silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) submitted to the Washington Department of Health for rabies testing and subsequently transferred to the National Wildlife Health Center…
Fungi and Bats – An Array of Colours
[COURTESY OF: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME INTERAGENCY COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH WORKING GROUP] Check out the new WNS poster that was recently released! It’s a great way to educate others about this important…
A New WNS Video, Workshop and Published Paper!
[Image taken from Parks Canada’s video “BATS AND WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME“] Parks Canada Agency just released their newest short video about WNS, cave-entry, and decontamination! You can view this…
Spiders, Harvestmen and Flies Carry Viable Spores of WNS Causing Fungus
A new brochure about white-nose syndrome has been produced. You can check it out here! I recently did an interview with Global News about the discovery of a white-nose infected…
A WNS Infected Little Brown Bat in Washington
[PHOTO CREDIT: Karen Vanderwolf] There has been a major development regarding white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats: a WNS-infected Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) was found in North Bend, Washington, just…
An Update on White-nose Syndrome
[PHOTO CREDIT: Karen Vanderwolf] I was interviewed for this article and thought it would be great to update you on the work that still continues on WNS. While there’s still…
Winter Bat Surveys Are Finished And The Results Aren’t Good
[We had to clamber over ice formations to get into this cave. Photo Credit: KJ Vanderwolf] We have finished our bat surveys for the winter and only found 12…
