Bats feed on crop pests in Sacramento Valley

Food habits of Mexican free-tailed bats and Yuma myotis bats were examined in the Sacramento Valley. Analyses of guano samples indicated that Mexican free-tailed and Yuma myotis bats fed on moths, water boatmen, beetles, flies, midges, mosquitoes and plant bugs. The diet o...

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Main Authors: Rachael Freeman Long, Tiffanie Simpson, Tzung-Su Ding, Steve Heydon, Wilbur Reil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources 1998-01-01
Series:California Agriculture
Online Access:http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v052n01p8