Eggcorn Forum

Not an eggcorn, but a fairly pervasive mondegreen in media descriptions of the malady decimating bat populations in North America. It must be due to the pull of white noise in the white noise of the copy room, if not the zeitgeist.

The decline in population is due to an affliction known as White Noise Syndrome. White Noise Syndrome, a white fungus that grows in the nose of and on the muzzle, tail, and wings of a bat during hibernation, causes the bats to lose their fat reserves, which they desperately need during winter hibernation. Essentially, White Noise Syndrome causes bats to starve to death. The cause of White Noise Syndrome is still unknown, and scientists and wildlife experts at both the state and federal level are continuing to monitor the situation.
https://attic-solutions.com/bat-species-in-illinois/

White Noise Syndrome: An emergent disease battering North American Bat populations
http://emorygdbbsnews.com/browse/2016/3 … soak162oqs

With white-noise syndrome affecting local bats, MassWildlife is asking for your help to locate bat colonies.
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Bat found with lethal white noise syndrome
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White Noise Syndrome (Bat) spreading in U.S.
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PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) – Correction: The name of the disease is White-Nose Syndrome, not “White-Noise Syndrome.”
Finally, a correction

White noise syndrome – threatening Ontario’s bats
http://wbn.scholarsportal.info/node/9189

The populations of Little Brown Bats are declining because of White Noise Syndrome, which is a disease carried by a fungus. White Noise Syndrome affects bats during hibernation and can cause death. In Canada, this animal is categorized as endangered because approximately 94% of the whole population in the eastern half of Canada has died over the past few years due to White Noise Syndrome.
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