the winter of 2006-2007 in a few hibernation caves near Albany, New York, where more than 8,000 bats died" (read more  here ). The fungus,  Geomyces destructans , is an ananmorph of Pseudogymnoascus which belongs somewhere in the Dothideomycetes. Danish bat – no desease (?) Posted by Jens H. Petersen at 16:15