Food of the Red Bat Lasiurus borealis in Winter in the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina and Virginia

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 408-411

  Whitaker Jr , John O ^a   Rose, Robert K ^b   Padgett, Thomas M ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LEPIDOPTERA; MYOTIS KEENII; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 0030924736     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2426862     Document Type: Article

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