Every year I count bats for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. My dad and I started to do this in the 1990s. One year we had over 400 living in our attic and in the out buildings. Then a disease called “white nose syndrome” hit, killing hundreds of thousands of bats across the northeast.
A few years ago I counted only 15. (They live in our shed and in a bat house we put up for them.) Last year I was up to 40; this year 46. They are not back to their previous numbers, but many of them seem to have acquired an immunity to the disease. We don’t often get good news from the natural world, but this is good news.
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