BATS DYING FROM WHITE MOLD SYNDROME

That's Batman. And yes.

A suspected vextor for white mold disease has been..... SPELUNKERS.
The Hesienberg uncertainty principle in action once again

Seems so obvious that the spelunkers could be a systemic problem - now, after the fact.

Imagine if corporate farmers had the stronghold on self-pollinating plants and vegetables. Gosh, they could really GOUGE the idiot consumer who keeps voting for incumbents in every election.

in your estimation farmer, could this be part of the so called Sixth Extinction?

Plant tomatos

That can only be known in retrospect. I suppose if we see a sizable extinction rate we can call it a major extinction. Seems kind of defeatist though.
A lot of geo sciences are wanting to call the geologic time we live in as the "Anthropocene" to mean that weve so fucked our planet by our own footprints that weve become the dominant feature in the world's environment.

The cause of the white nose syndrome hs been found, Its a psychrophyllic bacteria Pseudogymnoarcus destructans. It means it can thrive in low temperatures while bats hibernate. It produces severl enzymes that are brain attacking and cause the infected bats to develop a behavior that has them flying about an not eating, till they actully dessicate from lack of fluid an food intqke. GOOD NEWS-reserch has found a bacteriaphage that destroys the Pdestructans fungus in its various stages, including post infective. The bacteriophage is a sppecies called Rhodococcus rhodochrous. Several Universities and industries have partnered up to study this stuff and its now in a "balls to the wall" application program by spelunkers.

Im an experienced spelunker and, although Im up there in years, I maybe can help in the admin of the phage. Its apparently delivered in a encapsulated state on a silica powder , by adhering via some organo polymer. (KInda like the way they make these pelletized seeds except really really small. The technology is already known by ag because we deliver soil fumigants by this technique and its all fungal focused.

Some 90% of some species of bats in the NE and Canada have been wiped out and its making its way into European bat colonies.

Heres an example of a species going extinct that could have major tsunami waves on the entire ecosystem and agriculture

I thought it was caused by a fungus. Does the bacteria somehow lead to a fungal infection?

yeh youre right , it is a fungus, an extremophilic fungus that loves the cold weather.