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1 March 2005 Food of Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) from a Colony at Morrow, Georgia
John O. Whitaker, Susan M. Barnard
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Abstract

Based on analysis of fecal pellets, June bugs, Scarabaeidae, were the most abundant food of a colony of big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, from Morrow, GA, forming 36.9% of the food overall. They were eaten heavily early in spring and less so in late summer and fall. Ground beetles, Carabidae, were the second most abundant food item (12.1% of the diet overall). Beetles, collectively, made up 57.7% of the sample, followed by hymenopterans (10.7%; composed primarily of Formicidae), dipterans (10.5%), homopterans (8.8%), and hemipterans (5.0%). Lepidopterans made up 2.8% of the diet.

John O. Whitaker and Susan M. Barnard "Food of Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) from a Colony at Morrow, Georgia," Southeastern Naturalist 4(1), 111-118, (1 March 2005). https://doi.org/10.1656/1528-7092(2005)004[0111:FOBBBE]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 March 2005
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