Unprecedented Northeast Bat Die-off Spreading Rapidly

“People are starting to comb through old historic records to see,
but there is no evidence that I know of anywhere in the fossil record,
or in recent recorded history, of a die-off of this nature in bats.”

– DeeAnn Reeder, Ph.D., Bucknell University

Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave has white ring of the fungal genus Geomyces around its nose and on its ears. Image © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources. — Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave has white ring of the fungal genus *Geomyces* around its nose and on its ears. Image © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., West Virginia Dept. of Natural Resources.

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February 26, 2009 Vicksburg, Mississippi and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania - One year ago in February 2008, I reported at my news website, Earthfiles.com, about thousands of sick and dead cave-dwelling bats in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. [ See 022908 Earthfiles.]

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