A Regional Issue Of White Nose Syndrome

Wind turbines: Could be reason why bats die, a bat lung seems to have low pressure might cause to expand to the point of blood.

Insecticides have been used to try to control the emerald ash borer. However, there are guidelines for the use of these chemicals. There is a per acre use limit which means that all ash trees in the same area can be treated more than once in a year with the same chemical. Before treating an area one should pro-rate the acre use limit to match the size of the treatment area in order to control the concentration of the chemicals being used. Insecticides used against the borer may be soil applied, trunk injected and cover sprays. The soil applied treatment has been tested and has proved to be very inconsistent. Therefore, environmental activists concerned about the use of insecticides moved towards using a trunk injected treatment, but this has too been proven inconsistent in their trials. Cover sprays, however, seem to be providing mediocre results. While this treatment

Although the visual systems of bats and humans vary in many ways, both visual systems have evolved to benefit each species differently. While humans see life in color with their cones during the day, bats are the kings of nocturnal mammals and are capable of maneuvering throughout the night. It has become clear that bats are capable of so much more then just echolocation from a visual perspective. It is beyond fascinating to realize that what was once thought of as true, is actually false in reality. Therefore, it is safe to say that the phrase “you are as blind as a bat,” can be put to

White-nose syndrome is a disorder connected to exceptional bat transience event in several areas of North America. In the study conducted by Blehert et al (2009), bats declines beyond 75% from winter 2006 to 2007. The fungal growths on their muzzles, ears, and/or wing membranes of the bats, cause them to collapse (Blehert et al. 2009). Thus, this experiment was done as research methods for inhibiting the growth, investigating factors affect the growth and to prevent the growth of the tip.

“Obtaining oxygen and removing carbon dioxide are the primary functions of the respiratory system, which includes tubes that filter incoming air and transport air into and out of the lungs as well as microscopic air sacs where gases are exchanged” (Moini, 2013, p.497). Our respiratory system is broken down into two sections known as the upper respiratory tract and the lower respiratory tract.

Athens is home to forest-rooting bats such as, the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) and the Eastern Red Bat (Lasurius borealis). WNS is mostly spread in caves during hibernation. Although Athens bats are not cave-dwelling bats, they are still vectors to the fungus that causes the syndrome. White Nose Syndrome is a virulent fungal disease and is highly contagious to bats. The name of the disease is how you can determine if a bat is infected, as the hair around their nose turns white. The disease also infects the bats skin and wing membranes. As bats prepare to hibernate in the fall, they seek to store fat for the duration of the winter. WNS causes the bats to awaken more frequently and abnormally during hibernation. This causes the bats to use their stored fat prematurely and sadly, the bats do not make it to spring. In conclusion, whether the bats’ lungs fill with fluid, their wings are destroyed, or their food storage is prematurely consumed, this disease is

Do you like, or do you dislike bats like they are a cold? If you don’t, well you’ll dislike this paragraph because this one is all about the Northern long eared bat in North Dakota. The Northern long-eared bat has been on the endangered list since November 30, 1979, and frankly they aren’t bad for being bats. There are people trying to save this animal, like environmentalists, and there’s people who dislike these bats, like farmers and ranchers. The thing is, farmers and ranchers are the people who put them on the endangered list in the first place and they don’t realize it, but they are hunting them to try and save their families and animals from this bat. They also put themselves on the endangered list because

During the summers the Indiana bat live in hollow trees cavities, spaces underneath loose tree bark or they live abandoned buildings or abandoned mines.

The article “Flies’ Feet Can Spread Bacteria” explains how Pathogens and Bacteria can be spread by flies’. Scientists experimented on houseflies and blowflies in which their laboratory experiments prove that flies can pick up bacteria on their legs and then deposit the microbial bacteria elsewhere. In addition, many scientists believe that flies can contribute to the rapid transmission of pathogens and outbreak situations. In other words, flies may be associated with the transfer of bacteria in outbreaks of diseases. These flies mostly stay around places with trash and sewage. For example, many of the test flies were in Brazil where the acquired bacteria from sewage and transferred to other locations. The flies’ legs are the most crucial factor

There are other mammals as well as these in New York like the Fisher, Canada Lynx or Bobcat. Northern Long-eared Bats are a threatened species and the cause for this is the white nose syndrome or WNS for short, which is a disease caused by invasive fungus. Because of this, New York has been protecting the species hibernation sites and limiting forest management activities where the species will likely be present during certain times of day. The scientific name of the NLEB is Myotis Septentrionalis. Black Bears are valued by hunters, wilderness watchers and photographers. New Yorkers also enjoy just knowing that there are bears in New York and feel that they represent wildness and wilderness. The population of Black Bears in areas open to hunting is estimated to be 6000 to 8000 bears. The scientific name of Black Bears is the Ursus

Fieldwork was done within or on the periphery of Fort Collins, Colorado. The elevation in Fort Collins is 1,525M. The climate is temperature and semiarid with a 4-season cycle, averaging 300 days of sunshine. During the winter month, temperature are -2 °C. Summertime it is 22 °C. The big difference can affect the hibernation of the bats. The ArcView was used to survey and analyze the different areas used in the study. A fragmented forest was used in the experiment because it is a big brown bats most preferred habitat. The fragmented forested area was development free that has a least 20-30% of fires. In fragmented areas, it is in a stage that contains decent number of pine snags

White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) has been steadily claiming the lives of bats around the globe ever since its discovery in the winter of 2007. The disease is known for its white colored fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans. WNS infects regions of the bats such as the muzzle and wings. Once the bat is infected, the fungus eats the bats from the inside out. It is estimated 80 percent decrease in bat populations. The invasion dynamics of Pseudogymnoascus destructans is currently being studied to understand where the fungus grows. Samples were taken from bats and their habitats fro two winters testing for Pseudogymnoascus destructans. The effect of WNS on bat populations closely resembled the prevalence of P. destructans. As P. destructans increases the

As you can see, we are still on the bottom for Red Nose in the Region 15. Our goal is to sell at least 490 red noses per week per store. Can we still do it? Are we still pushing the Red Nose? How about each store managers set a goal for their team members and have a competition within the store? Or, they can print out pictures, that I’d sent out to the Area or their own store picture, with that, for every red noses that customer want to buy, we can give out the picture for FREE! This way, team members can engage into the program as well as the customers. What do you guys think? I really, really, really, want us to beat everyone in the Region15. Please HELP!!!

An infected kissing bug bites a humans face then defecates on them, releasing the parasite T. cruzi into the bite wound from the feces. They multiply and are released into the endocrine system (3). The parasites infect the tissues they come into contact with, creating multiple infection sites. The parasites luckily cannot duplicate in the blood stream, only in the mid-gut of a kissing bug (3). A kissing bug can only be infected when it consumes a blood meal from an already infected human. Therefore it is crucial to cure as many infected hosts as possible, to reduce the amount of infected kissing

Spores produced on the dead canker bark are exuded in a gelatinous matrix and disseminated by rain splash. The conidia are splashed to other parts of the tree, surrounding trees, and fruit causing new infections (Henriquez, Sugar, and Spotts, 2006). The sexual stage is rarely present and insignificant in disease epidemiology (Creemers, 2013). However, it has been suggested that cankers allowed to overwinter produce airborne spores (sexual spores) that can initiate new infections at a distance from the source and water-borne spores (asexual spores) intensify the disease in trees that are already infected (British Columbia Gov., 2014). The epidemiology of this disease is not fully understood and in addition control measures are lacking (Jong