White-Nose Syndrome Photo Gallery
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns1thumb.jpg) NWHC wildlife pathologist Nancy Thomas performs a necropsy on a bat suspected of having White-Nose Syndrome.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns2thumb.jpg) NWHC wildlife pathologist Nancy Thomas and technician Dottie Johnson perform a necropsy on a bat at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WI.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns3thumb.jpg) A bat with white-nose syndrome (WNS) undergoing a necropsy to help identify its cause of death.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns4thumb.jpg) Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department bat biologist Scott Darling, outside a Vermont cave containing affected bats.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns5thumb.jpg) Cluster of little brown bats in crevice outside an affected cave in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns6thumb.jpg) Dead bats at a cave entrance in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns7thumb.jpg) Biologist entering the entrance of a cave containing bats with white-nose syndrome in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns8thumb.jpg) Bat clusters near the entrance of a Vermont cave.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns9thumb.jpg) Biologist navigating large rocks inside a Vermont cave.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns10thumb.jpg) Hibernating bats on wall of a cave in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns11thumb.jpg) Little brown bat with wing damage in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns12thumb.jpg) Close up of wing damage on a Little Brown bat in Vermont.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns13thumb.jpg) Hibernating bats in a Vermont cave.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns14thumb.jpg) Close up of hibernating bats in a Vermont cave.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns15thumb.jpg) Dead bats on the ground in a Vermont cave.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns16thumb.jpg) Bats in torpor with water droplets on their fur (condensation on the bats indicates that they are at ambient temperature; they have lowered their body temperature down about even with cave temperature).
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns17thumb.jpg) Biologists and technicians preparing to enter a New York mine containing bats with WNS.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns18thumb.jpg) Fungal covered items in NY mine (likely scat).
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns19thumb.jpg) Entrance to mine in MA containing affected bats.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns20thumb.jpg) USFWS and MA Division of F&W biologists in MA mine containing bats with WNS.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns21thumb.jpg) Close up of water droplet covered hibernating bat in MA mine.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916212430im_/http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/images/wns/wns22thumb.jpg) Affected WNS bats in MA mine.
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