{"id":1412,"date":"2009-12-16T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/16\/white-nose-syndrome-bat-disease-more-dire-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:54:00","slug":"white-nose-syndrome-bat-disease-more-dire-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/16\/white-nose-syndrome-bat-disease-more-dire-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"White nose syndrome bat disease more dire than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report issued today by NY&#8217;s DEC finds that more than 90% of bats in the Northeast&#8217;s most important hibernation caves are dead.<\/p>\n<p>In some species, mortality tops 93%.  Sadly, there&#8217;s no evidence that the survivors are tougher or more resistant to the fungal disease.  It appears that they&#8217;re just &#8216;lucky,&#8217; says wildlife biologist Al Hicks.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s really nothing particularly hopeful to report here.  But there is some indication that a few species are weathering the storm better; dryer caves also seem to be a bit safer. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of us noticed far fewer bats on our ponds and woodlots last summer.  As the disease spreads west, it appears that this could mushroom into a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>A North Woods without bats flitting and capering overhead?  Hard to imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report issued today by NY&#8217;s DEC finds that more than 90% of bats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}