Mushrooms Can Punahkan Most bats in the U.S.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The white-nose syndrome, a deadly, threatening to make one-insect-eating bat species extinction, at least regionally, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday (5 / 8).
The infection spread rapidly throughout the north-eastern United States and Canada and is likely to lead to regional extinction brown myotis bats are small, but the researchers report in the journal Science.
The animal previously had become the most common bat species in North America and is considered advantageous due to the huge appetite of mosquitoes, flies and other vermin.
"This is one of the worst wildlife crisis we've faced," said Winifred Rick at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Bats are affected by this disease is all the species of predator insects, and one bat can devour the insects in an amount equal to their weight every night, including some disease spreaders consuming attack."
Syndrome, associated with the fungus that spread among bats when the animals sleep during the winter, affecting at least seven species, the researchers said.
The disease was only identified four years ago, the bats are nesting in a cave near Albany, New York. Since then, more than 1 million animals have been flying mammals had died down to Tennessee and Oklahoma.
"The loss of so many bats in essence is a very terrifying experience because of how all these animals are very influential in controlling insects," Frick said, as quoted by Reuters.
Mushrooms kill with a disguised way, so the bats could not rest when they sleep during the winter. When merekagelisah, they burn their fat reserves. The researchers estimate that 73 percent of the animals in a colony die soon after all the animal infection.
"Given the rapid spread of this fungus is geographically the past four years, we can estimate that the white nose syndrome will greatly affect the species as a colony of bats are bats that sleep in winter in the U.S..
Endangered animals include two species listed as federally endangered and mostly in Midwestern states, "said biologist at Boston University, Thomas Kunz, in a statement.
One study has shown that people who explore the many caves have helped it quickly spread of the fungus. Mushrooms are also apparently has spread from bat to bat, and many local and regional governments have been closed to the general public when the transmission soaring.
Bats appear to thinking about a little, or even do not have, immunity to fungi that live in cold regions, called Geomysces destuctans, the researchers said. The fungus had covered their mouths bat and attacking their skin, says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"The decline of the population that bad, especially if the disease spread more rapidly to the south and west of the current distribution in eastern North America, may result in changes that can not be predicted in function and structure of ecosystems," the conclusion Kunz and tem Frick.