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Little brown bats are dying from White Nose Syndrome. This is so devastating that little brown bats may become extinct within the next 10 years unless something can be done to help them. Bats are essential to the environment as one bat can eat up to 2000 insects in one evening, including mosquitoes carrying West Nile disease.

White Nose Syndrome is lethal to each bat that gets sick. It causes a white fungus to grow around the nose area, sometimes on the tips of wings, tail and ears of bats. No one is quite sure where it comes from and how it is transmitted from one bat to another. Bats have been dying by the thousands each year. Biologists predict that the little brown bat will not have a future unless something is done or a cure is found. There are over 1 million little brown bats in caves, old buildings, and mines. The most common bat in Pennsylvania, the little brown bats have been found dead in these areas where they tend to hibernate.

Fewer bats means more bugs to destroy crops and attack people. Bats are very beneficial to the environment and are a needed natural pest control creature. More investigation into White Nose Syndrome is needed. The bats can’t wait for a cure…they don’t have a whole lot of time left if the biologists are accurate in their calculation of distinction.