The Atco Town Crier from Atco NJ » bats http://theatcotowncrier.com News from the little town of Atco New Jersey Fri, 04 May 2012 21:21:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Where did all the bats go? http://theatcotowncrier.com/2009/06/where-did-all-the-bats-go/ http://theatcotowncrier.com/2009/06/where-did-all-the-bats-go/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:21:23 +0000 The Crier http://theatcotowncrier.com/?p=1112 bat2If you don’t see too many bats this summer there is a very good reason why. Seems as though the bats are plaqued with a condition know as “white-nose syndrome” which causes them to come out of hibernation and use up their stored energy and fat reserves. So in turn they die. The fungus invades the skin, underlying tissue and particularly the wings, which help to balance complex physiological processes such as body temperature. Scientists aren’t sure why this is happening but it is. They feel that the population may have dropped 95%. A population of 1 million bats will eat 8000 pounds of insects each night. So if you think you have a lot of mosquitoes this year you are absolutely right!

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