Sentence examples for the hibernacula from inspiring English sources

The FWS describes it like this: "While they are in the hibernacula, affected bats often have white fungus on their muzzles and other parts of their bodies.

These bats often move to cold parts of the hibernacula, fly during the day and during cold winter weather when the insects they feed upon are not available, and exhibit other uncharacteristic behavior".

In April, the total number of bats and the number of Gd-suspect bats decreased as bats left the hibernacula.

The bats prematurely emerge from the hibernacula and attempt to forage, which in winter conditions causes frostbite and subsequent necrosis of the wing membranes [8].

Seasonally, more WNS-suspect bats were found late in their hibernation; although, the fungal growths disappeared prior to their leaving the hibernacula.

Another contributing factor to decreased survival could be that disturbance of the normal hibernation pattern leads to pre-mature departure of the affected animals from the hibernacula.

During hibernation, when the body temperature of bats drops to the ambient temperatures of the underground hibernacula, the fungal mycelia can grow upon the skin surfaces of these animals [1], [3].

Since its first known appearance in 2006, WNS has spread with each year into the underground hibernacula in the USA and Canada, and over one million deaths within populations of several bat species have been attributed to the disease [1], [2].

Indeed, other non-CHC cuticular substances, such as proteins, might also be used as chemical recognition cues as it was demonstrated in the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus, in the shelter (hibernacula) marking phenomenon [66].

The salamanders remained in their hibernacula -- the holes in the ground where they had spent the winter below the frost line.

In many hibernacula — the disease seems to afflict bats only during the winter — the mortality rate has reached over ninety per cent.