Images

Close up of wing damage on a Little Brown bat in Vermont. 2008.

Hibernating bats on wall of a cave in Vermont. 2008.

Hibernating bats in a Vermont cave. 2008.

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). 2008.

Bat clusters near the entrance of a Vermont cave. 2008.

Little brown bat with wing damage in Vermont 2008.

Cluster of little brown bats in crevice outside a cave in Vermont. 2008

Biologist entering the entrance of a cave containing bats with white-nose syndrome in Vermont. 2008.

Close up of hibernating bats in a Vermont cave 2008.

USGS biologists swab a hen mallard duck for avian influenza in Rio Grande County, Colorado.

USGS pathologist Nancy Thomas and technician Dottie Johnson necropsy little brown bat at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center.

Bats die prematurely when affected by white-nose syndrome.

Bats showing signs of infections with Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome.

Side-view of a desert Cottontail sitting on the ground with tick in ear.

Diagnostic technician looks at virology samples under a microscope.

Bullfrog in Acadia National Park

Blue-winged Warbler. 

This tadpole shows signs of a severe Perkinsea infection. 

Analytical Profile Index (API) for microorganism identification.