Web-building spiders and blood-feeding flies as prey of the notch-eared bat (Myotis emarginatus)

Belgian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-67

  Kervyn, Thierry ^a   Godin, Marie Céline ^a   Jocqué, Rudy ^b   Grootaert, Patrick ^c   Libois, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Food; Geoffroy's bat; Musca autumnalis; Spiders; Stomoxys calcitrans

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECTOPARASITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLY; FOOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPIDER;

BELGIUM;

ARANEAE; ARANEUS; ARANEUS DIADEMATUS; CYCLOSA; DIPTERA; ENOPLOGNATHA; LARINIOIDES; MUSCA AUTUMNALIS; MYOTIS EMARGINATUS; NERIENE; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 84861844191     PISSN: 07776276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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