Bat disease recently found in Franklin, Washington counties
Caves where White Nose Syndrome found closed to public to prevent disturbing remaining bats.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center has confirmed that a deadly disease in bats called “White Nose Syndrome” (WNS) has been recently found in a little brown [...]

By Jo Schaper
I’m happy to report my knee is healing nicely.
Whatever I was doing at 9:30 last Saturday night, (thrashing through the brush along Coonville Creek following John Platt, graduate student from Central Missouri University, out to his mist net sites where the order of the night was to capture whatever bats happened by) [...]

If you’re curious about bats, you’re in luck this April, starting tonight.
All events were scheduled before Monday’s news about white nose syndrome in bats being found here, but just as a sick person is more than their disease, these creatures are fascinating in their own right.
All events are free and open to the [...]

Bat festival swoops into Onondaga
By Tom Uhlenbrock
Missouri State Parks
LEASBURG, Mo. – Rob Mies is coming to Missouri’s first ever Bat Festival on Saturday, April 21, at Onondaga Cave State Park. And he’s bringing a few of his furry friends.
Mies is the director and founder of the Organization for Bat Conservation, the largest grassroots bat conservation [...]

The United States Geological Service announced today that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes WNS in little brown bats, according to agency research published today in the journal Nature.
The study by U.S. Geological Survey scientists and partners, conducted at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., provides the first direct evidence [...]

This well-researched article in the Columbia Missourian contains much information about the current state of white nose syndrome in Missouri bats, and its effects on caves, cave management and cavers.
In short, the story is: After discovering bats with Geomyces destructans fungus and scarring evidence on their wings in two caves, one in Pike County [...]

A few more dollars have been distributed to research white-nose syndrome, the fungal bat disease which showed up in the United States in 2006, and which has halted nearly all state and federal land caving in Missouri. For more on WNS, visit http://www.caves.org/WNS/ .
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has awarded nearly $1.6 [...]

Bat experts meeting in St. Louis on White Nose Syndrome. Sometimes the interviewer becomes the interviewee…especially when it involves caves, rocks or bats.
( I am not a bat expert, nor attending the meeting, but I do care about Missouri bats, caves, and continued cave access for all responsible outdoors people. Apparently someone from [...]