Bat plague: The mystery disease that threatens to wipe species out and why we depend on their survival

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1280531/Bat-plague-The-mystery-disease-threatens-wipe-depend-survival.html

Here we go again. More mass, species specific deaths. This time, bats, something sweeping across North America, "starving bats to death and leaving behind mass graves of thin, putrefied and fungus ridden bodies".

About one million bats have died of it, it's been dubbed "WNS" or white nosed syndrome, after the white powdery fungus left on their noses and wings.