Bats can eat a lot of insects, espically mosquitoes. If we lose bats, we are losing an important component of our ecosystem. Do you care ?

It is probably only a matter of time before a disease decimating bats in the United States reaches Prince Edward Island, says a wildlife pathologist.

Bats in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are being threatened by white-nosed syndrome, a fungal disease that kills bats while they hibernate in large groups in caves. In caves infected in the U.S.—50 to 90 per cent of the bats have died.

Scott McBurney of the Atlantic Veterinary College believes it is just a matter of time before the disease affects bats on P.E.I. McBurney told CBC News Tuesday little is known about where P.E.I. bats overwinter, but it's possible they could migrate to neighbouring provinces.

Deadly bat disease likely to strike P.E.I.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/04/20/pei-...