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Bat Illness Spells Trouble For Farmers

Posted 2009-05-11

Disease Killing Off Primary Natural Predator Of Pests

By Jenny Jones

HARRISONBURG - Although they are largely misunderstood, bats are considered among the most beneficial animals in the United States. So the recent discovery of a rapidly spreading fatal disease called White-Nose Syndrome in Virginia bats, possibly including those in Endless Caverns near New Market, has biologists and elected officials scrambling to save the small-winged mammals. The syndrome takes its name from the ring of white fungus that often appears on inf...

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