In the spring, bats form maternity colonies in warm places where their pups will greatest chance to thrive. Sometimes that warm place is your house.
A bat hiding in the folds of this reporter’s bath towel in the summer of 2013. Carrie Fenton first learned about bats back in Long Island, through local bat revitalization programs. Then she went to college in New Orleans, the definitive vampire capital of the United States. She lived in Montana for a year, where she became accustomed to all kinds of wildlife — rattlesnakes, mountain lions, bears.
I must disclose, here, that I too have lived among the bats. A colony inhabited my home in Alabama a decade ago. I remember them lurking in the folds of my bath towels and swooping at me in the kitchen as I cooked spaghetti. I once picked one up, thinking it was a magnolia leaf I’d tracked indoors, and it screamed at me. I’ve dined out on that story for a long time.
Each fall, bats swarm, mate and go into hibernation. On the East Coast, bats will gather in large groups to hibernate in caves. That’s typically when bats spread, a fungus that has been devastating to bat populations around the world in the last 15 years or so. The fungus has made it as far north as Washington. But Southeast’s topography has worked against the disease, forcing unique hibernation patterns that reduce the spread.
That’s what Fenton was most likely experiencing in the spring of 2021, around half a year after she spotted the first bat.
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