Diet of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus, from Pennsylvania and western Maryland

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-104

  Agosta, Salvatore J ^a,b   Morton, David ^a  

^a FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSTERNUM; ACROSTERNUM HILARE; COLEOPTERA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SCARABAEIDAE; TETTIGONIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037261149     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2003)010[0089:dotbbb]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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