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Article: Food of eptesicus fuscus, the big brown bat, in Indiana in the absence of cultivated fields and agricultural pests.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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ABSTRACT. Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in Indiana feed heavily on agricultural pest insects. Big brown bats at Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, Martin County, Indiana, where agricultural fields were not present, had almost the same diet as in areas of central Indiana and neighboring Illinois with abundant cultivated fields. Scarabaeid beetles, spotted cucumber beetles (Diabrotica undecimpunctata), green stinkbugs, carabid beetles, other beetles, cicadellid bugs and lepidopterans were the most important foods in both cases, although the order varied somewhat.
Keywords: Bats, Chiroptera, food habits, Eptesicus fuscus, big brown bat
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