The unprecedented die-off of bat and bee colonies across the US and the world will bring about catastrophic crop losses.  In 2010, New Jersey surveyed the bat population in that state and found that 90% of the bats in New Jersey had died.  Scientists attribute the die-offs to a white fungus.  Rick Adams, a biology professor at the University of Northern Colorado and a renowned bat expert said, "This is on a level unprecedented, certainly in mammals.  A mass extinction event, a thousand times ...
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