Alarming that in a few years researchers are predicting an extinction of the common brown bat in the northeast. Either way you feel about the environment and how it should or should not be handled this is pretty alarming. Read more here.

A deadly disease is destroying Northeast bat populations so rapidly that one of New England's most common species is likely to disappear within 20 years, Boston University and other scientists conclude in a study published today.

By Beth Daley

Does this mean more mosquito bites for us fishermen?

I noticed last summer the bat population in my area seemed to be down. Hardly ever saw them. This summer though, they seem to me to be flourishing. I hope the study you mentioned is wrong.

I hope your right. I have a place right at the lake and there is a noticeable decline, up here in NH.

over here in warren county new jersey, i'm seeing plenty of bats flying around at night, and sometimes during the day!  what i can't beleive is that the bear population is so high.(sorry for going off topic).  There is actually going to be a bear hunt in new jersey this season

I see tons of them at sundown here on the lakes north of Phoenix.