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Article: Prey Consumed by Eight Species of Insectivorous Bats from Southern Illinois
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- The American Midland Naturalist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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ABSTRACT.
We collected data on the diet of eight species of insectivorous bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae): big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), red bats (Lasiurus borealis), evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis), northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown myotis (M. lucifugus), Indiana myotis (M. sodalis), southeastern myotis (M. austroriparius) and eastern pipistrelles (Perimyotis subflavus). Bats were mist netted during the summers of 1999 and 2000 at 41 forest sites throughout southern Illinois. We analyzed prey remains in fecal pellets of 305 individuals to assess diet similarity among species and relationships between bat body mass and prey diversity and hardness. Larger ...
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