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Bats are now dying
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Well that is upsetting about the bats. Hope they discover what is killing them soon.
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I've heard of this before. I can't remember if I read about it or saw it on TV. I wonder if it's got anything to do with all the spraying and what not they're doing to mosquito populations to combat west nile.
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When any animal/bird dies en masse,it should raise alarm,it's a sad scary thing:sad:
One year there was birds dying and I found several,of a mysterious eye-disease,the House Finch just about dissappeared,I think it's all related to pollution,pesticide etc..
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This is so sad. I really like these little guys.
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Bats, bee's, amphibians ... we are killing our creatures.
from link above: ROSENDALE, N.Y. - Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in hazmat suits are crawling into dank caves to find out why. "White nose syndrome," as the killer has been dubbed, is spreading at an alarming rate, with researchers calling it the gravest threat in memory to bats in the U.S. "This is definitely unprecedented," said Lori Pruitt, an endangered-species biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Bloomington, Ind. "The hugest concern at this point is that we do not know what it is." significant loss of bats is chilling in itself to wildlife experts. But —like the mysterious mass die-offs around the country of bees that pollinate all sorts of vital fruits and vegetables — the bat deaths could have economic implications. Bats feed on insects that can damage dozens of crops, including wheat and apples. "Without large populations of bats, there would certainly be an impact on agriculture," said Barbara French of Bat Conservation International of Austin, Texas. White nose syndrome has afflicted at least four species of hibernating bats, spreading from a cluster of four caves near Albany last winter to more than a dozen caverns up to 130 miles away. Alan Hicks, a wildlife biologist with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, said he fears a catastrophic collapse of the region's bat population and is urgently enlisting experts around the country to find the cause. It is not even clear if the fungus around the bats' noses — something scientists say they have never seen before — is a cause or a symptom. It may be a sign the bats are too sick to groom themselves, said Beth Buckles, a veterinary pathologist at Cornell University. The die-offs could be caused by bacteria or a virus. Or the bats could be reacting to some toxin or other environmental factor. Whatever it is, afflicted bats are burning through their winter stores of fat before hibernation ends in the spring, and appear to be starving. The Northeast has generally had mild winters in recent years. But Hicks said he doubts that is the culprit in some way, since there are no reports of large die-offs in warmer states
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That's so sad :sad: I hope they can figure this out quickly
I've never seen a bat live, except for on TV, I think they're adorable & amazing when you see 10,000s of them flying out of their caves @ dusk to hunt bugs
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Aside from the rabies issue with bats, they are of our comrades. They eat so many mosquitos per night that they save us from countless other diseasese like malaria and west nile virus. I have nothing against them, in fact our local park for years has had many bats living atop the tall pine trees. At night in the spring/summer and fall I enjoy watching them fly around after the skeeters. Remarkable creatures they are.
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We have some living in our roof somewhere. The house is so old that I'm sure they've been there a long while. One night we counted 120 coming out before giving up the count. They are no larger than a common sparrow and swoop around you if you're outside when they decide to emerge for their evening feed. Silent except for a bit of squeaky noises right before they start to fly.
But every year there have been less and less.
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My gosh you're up as late as me, whatcha doing takin the dogs pee pee or just like the nights?
That's an awful lotta bats in your roof, wow I mean really WOW. Have you ever considered speaking to the ministry of natural resources and maybe seeing if there is bait to put out for them with rabies vaccine?
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I'm not afraid of them and like giving them a home. But.... in the house, no matter what part, I don't like. But the people that lived in the house before us did nothing to combat the bats. We are going to try and get some bat houses built then get one of those special nets that allow bats out but not back in, and then put moth balls in the attic. They don't like moth ball scent. Neither do I. lol
They need to have their own homes and a bonus gives us bat guano - the best fertilizer out there next to worm casings. Living right by a river marsh, you can imagine the amount of biting bugs we have around here. Don't think it would be too wise to just get rid of the bats altogether or we'd be overrun with bugs. ugh It's bad enough as it is with the black fly, deer fly, mosquito, sand fly, etc. Most don't hesitate to get in your face and take out bloody chunks of skin, but sand flies find ankles and feet especially tasty. lol Yeah I went to sleep early, around 8 pm, then got wet nose nudges in the face from two dogs which woke me up and then I wasn't tired enough to go back to sleep.
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I too have never seen live bats and the way things are going,I probably never will:sad:
Ceara,trying to bait the bats with rabies stuff,is a good idea,but the MONR are not often very cooperative,they probably rather kill the bats I remember a few years back,6 of "my" 7 Crows died from West Nile,not a big loss to most people,except me.
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Here is a picture of our resident bat. We have one in the front of the house and one in the back. We have a bat house up for them, but they prefer the warm stone.
We live beside a pond so we would never get rid of the bats. We watch them out at night gobbling up all those mosquitos
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Oh oh, just listened to pet podcast #36 and Dr Lee stated that we can get rabies from bat urine, it doesn't have to bite us. Not liking my resident bats too much now.
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Updated with an interview / mammal specialist
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?I...ry=Environment
There are some photos showing the fungus on the bats on that link. Quote:
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Thank you for keeping us updated. This is very scary indeed and people need to start listening to the scientist when they are talking about global warming. If everybody did their share to conserve energy, it would help.
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I agree with the scientist... that the fungus is a symptom of another problem and not the problem itself.
There are other factors though that no one considers. Think back when the nuclear testing was done in high atmosphere. All that nuclear material never left and it's just hanging around up there. I feel the radiation is what's causing the ozone hole. Radiation also gets rained/snowed out. Then there's pesticides and other chemicals we spray all the time for bugs and the bugs carry the chemicals, the bats eat them, etc. The whole food chain is getting screwed up. No wonder the bats are sick. Almost all the planets in our solar system are going through lots of changes. I do not feel humans are the sole cause of global warming, but we are definitely not helping the situation and only making it worse. Something is creating change throughout the entire solar system. And no one ever talks about that on the major news networks. Yet the information is still out there in NASA records and other scientific sources. Don't forget HAARP in Alaska. What the heck are they tinkering with? I don't think they even know and are just rolling the dice... taking a chance. We're told all the time that Carbon Dioxide is increasing. Could the opposite be true and Oxygen is decreasing? Mass media is lying to us. They are nothing more than repeaters anyway. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/HoLLR.html#p5 Quote:
Something is going on for sure with our planet. Remember there used to be dinosaurs... and whatever killed them didn't kill everything. Life didn't end, it just changed. Could it be possible all the stuff that's going on is just another symptom of change? But humans are a definite problem anyway. I don't know if the major news networks have talked about it... but there's a huge "island" of floating plastic in the Pacific ocean. http://images.google.com/images?q=Gr...A243CA243&um=1
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I would be careful about the Bat guano, it gets to weigh alot then you may have to replace your roof/flooring....ooohhh. thanks for the info on this killer of bats, I too like the little guys, they keep all the skin biters away. pbp
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