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Fall Field Season Finished and Bat Numbers are Down
[CWF PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] We’ve finished our fall field season and bat numbers are more depressing than ever. We saw just 39 bats in the 10 sites that…
The New Field Season Begins!
[PHOTO CREDIT: Donald McAlpine] – Allysia, myself, and Darlene working hard well into the evening! The entrance to the mine had many icicles hanging from the ceiling. Field work season…
A Video on Bats and White Nose Snydrome
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUESUM] The US Forest Service recently made a video on bats and white nose syndrome featuring several well known US scientists. Take a look!
A Possible Biocontrol for WNS
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] I recently attended the 6th annual white-nose syndrome workshop held in Boise, Idaho Sept 3-6th. These meetings are a bit different from regular conferences in…
Wayne Clifford’s poem – A Lament for Bats
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] Wayne Clifford, a poet from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, did a CBC radio interview on Monday and read his poem, “A Lament for Bats” –…
Listing Bats In Canada
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] North America has 48 different species of bats and 6 of them have experienced significant mortality due to white-nose syndrome. The species hardest hit are…
A New Name For The WNS Causing Fungus
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM – a culture of Pseudogymnoascus destructans growing on agar in the lab] The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, Geomyces destructans, has been renamed…
WNS Continues to Spread
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] As you can see in the above map, white-nose syndrome continued to spread at a rapid pace during the 2012-2013 winter season. Nine new…
I Got To Meet Our Bat Hero – Dara!
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM -SPECIMENS FROM THE NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM’S BAT COLLECTION. THESE INCLUDE THE BIG BROWN BAT, LITTLE BROWN BAT, NORTHERN LONG-EAR BAT, AND THE TRICOLORED BAT] In…
WNS on CBC’s Land and Sea!
[PHOTO CREDIT: DF MCALPINE] – Myself on the left with the camera crew – I recently spent two days with a CBC camera crew. They are making an episode of…
