BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 53: NO. 1 SPRING 2012 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 53: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor Confirmation of White-nose Syndrome in Bats of Europe and Implications of This Discovery toward Understanding the Disease in Bats of North America Carol Meteyer, David Blehert, and Paul Cryan . 1 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 5 News from Our Subscribers . 13 Announcements and Future Meetings . 13 VOLUME 53: NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Mating Eastern Red Bats Found Dead at a Wind-energy Facility Donald I. Solick, Jeffery C. Gruver, Matthew J. Clement, Kevin L. Murray, and Zapata Courage . 15 Book Reviews Bats of the United States and Canada by Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach, and Troy L. Best Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell . 19 Bats in Captivity, Volume Three: Diet and Feeding—Environment and Housing by Susan M. Barnard (Ed.) Patrick R. Thomas . 21 Island Bats by Theodore H. Fleming and Paul A. Racey (Eds.) Deanna Byrnes . 22 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 25 News from Our Members . 34 Announcements and Future Meetings . 35 i BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 53: NUMBER 3 FALL 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor Potential Spring Mating Behavior in the Eastern Pipistrelle (Perimyotis subflavus) Luke E. Dodd and Joseph S. Johnson . 37 Book Review Bats of Texas by Loren K. Ammerman, Christine L. Hice, and David J. Schmidly Cullen K. Geiselman . 39 Recent Literature Anne Griffiths, Tom Griffiths, Margaret Griffiths, and Jacques Veilleux . 41 News from Our Members . 49 Announcements and Future Meetings . 50 VOLUME 53: NUMBER 4 WINTER 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Acoustically Detecting Indiana Bats: How Long Does It Take? Shannon Romeling, C. Ryan Allen, and Lynn Robbins . 51 Letter to the Editor Notes on the Diet of Tonatia bidens (Phyllostomidae) in Paraguay Paul Smith . 59 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 42nd Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico Compiled by Gary Kwiecinski, Shahroukh Mistry, and Frank Bonaccorso Edited by Margaret Griffiths . 61 List of Participants at the 42nd Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research Compiled by Armando Rodríguez-Durán . 115 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 119 Announcements and Future Meetings . 128 ii BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 53: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor Confirmation of White-nose Syndrome in Bats of Europe and Implications of This Discovery toward Understanding the Disease in Bats of North America Carol Meteyer, David Blehert, and Paul Cryan . 1 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 5 News from Our Subscribers . 13 Announcements and Future Meetings . 13 Front Cover The characteristic white fungus (Geomyces destructans) associated with white-nose syndrome covering the nose and wings of a Myotis lucifugus (little brown myotis). 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Confirmation of White-nose Syndrome in Bats of Europe and Implications of This Discovery toward Understanding the Disease in Bats of North America Carol Meteyer1, David Blehert1, and Paul Cryan2 1United States Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI 53711, and 2United States Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO 80526 E-mail: [email protected] White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an for understanding this emerging wildlife infectious disease of the skin of hibernating disease. bats caused by the fungus Geomyces White fungal growth on the muzzle of destructans. The disease was first identified hibernating bats in Europe resembles the in 2007 and is estimated to have killed over fungal growth on muzzles of bats with WNS 5.5 million cave-hibernating bats in North in North America (Martínková et al., 2010; America (United States Fish and Wildlife Puechmaille et al., 2010), and photographs Service, 2012). Within 3 years of arrival of from Europe document affected bats as early the disease, bats have disappeared from long- as the 1980s (Feldmann, 1984). Subsequent established winter colonies, and many genetic and morphological analyses have populations of hibernating bats across the confirmed the identity of this European northeastern United States have experienced fungus as G. destructans (Martínková et al., 95–100% mortality (Turner et al., 2011). 2010; Puechmaille et al., 2010, 2011; Wibbelt One of the most intriguing aspects of this et al., 2010). unprecedented disease is that G. destructans Pikula et al. (2012) provide the first also colonizes the skin of multiple species of documentation that G. destructans can cause hibernating bats in at least 12 European the characteristic skin erosions or ulcers that countries (Martínková et al., 2010; define WNS in the bats of Europe. These Puechmaille et al., 2010, 2011; Wibbelt et al., new findings show that WNS occurs in bats 2010). Furthermore, a new study (Pikula et of both Europe and North America. al., 2012) confirms that fungal lesions on a However, the intriguing difference between bat from the Czech Republic are North America and Europe is that infection by indistinguishable from those diagnostic of G. destructans in Europe has not been WNS in bats of North America. With this associated with unusual mortality letter, we hope to draw attention to recent (Martínková et al., 2010; Puechmaille et al., pathological findings associated with WNS in 2010, 2011; Wibbelt et al., 2010). European bats and emphasize the importance In North America, WNS apparently has of comparative analyses between continents spread from a group of closely spaced © 2012 Bat Research News. All rights reserved. 2 Bat Research News Volume 53: No. 1 hibernacula in New York, including a tourist those in Europe (see species accounts in cave (Blehert et al., 2009). Analyses of the Barbour and Davis, 1969 and Dietz et al., sequence of nucleotides of DNA from marker 2009), which may create conditions more regions of ribosomal RNA indicate that conducive to the spread of the fungus. isolates of G. destructans