The animals are beautiful, beneficial Bats and the disease that is wiping this mammal off of the face of the Earth, is white-nose syndrome.
Many people have a
negative opinion of this” most helpful
friend “ and even those who don’t fear it, may have a
difficult time feeling any great remorse for
its current plight.
Right now, Bats in this
country are facing nearly complete
eradication from this rampant fungal disease and
the prospects of the species surviving, do
not look too good.
You should be very
concerned about this situation, but you may
not know why.
Bats are the single most
prolific insect eater on the planet and if
they ceased to exist, those nasty little creepy,
crawly, critters might just, as in the
biblical prophecies, not only, " inherit the
earth, “ they may just take it over
quite quickly, with little to stop them,
other than more huge quantities of
what is becoming more and more frequently,
”useless insecticides.”
The over use of these
terrible toxins for way too long now, has
caused countless numbers of insects to become
“super bugs,” that are developing
complete immunity to them.
Now, this is all a very
scary thought, unless you happen to love
bugs.
As for the beleaguered
Bats, the white-nose syndrome has now spread
across the country into 22 states
and has killed more than 7 million Bats in
its death march.
Irregardless of our
personal feelings about Bats, we all need
them in our lives, because the world would
not be a very “human friendly”
place to live with out them.
We actually have a Bat
house on our property and continue to hope
that one day, it might just have
some visitors~
As usual, it would be
wonderful if you chose to get involved and several ways to do
this are detailed in these two stories:
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