Will The Bats Come Back?
Personal memory by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
2017 • State College, PA, USA
When I first moved here in 2008, every night in the summer I would love watching the bats flutter and swoop above and around me. The one summer several years ago--2011? 2012?--they disappeared. I had heard about the fungus epidemic that was decimating populations, and I knew it had hit us. I've watched each year for a return: there were some this past summer, which was so wonderful, but nothing like it had once been.
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