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Salix flowers, Orthosia moths and moth specialist bats – a possible connection
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Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Paleontology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences
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Forest Ecology Department, Forest Research Institute
Online publication date: 2023-05-12
Publication date: 2023-05-12
Hystrix It. J. Mamm. 2023;34(1):68-70
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ABSTRACT
We present the results of 63 nights of recordings carried out in early spring in the years 2017 to 2020. In the beginning of vegetative season in northern Europe insects are scarce and one of the first blossoming trees – Salix spp. are providing local hotspots of Orthosia moths – a possible food source for moth specialized bats, such as the brown long-eared and barbastelle. Our experiment confirms a relationship between willows and long-eared bats, manifested with overall higher activity around willow than in vicinity of other trees and remains inconclusive for barbastelles.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank Andrew Carr for English proofreading. Last but not least we would like to highlight a great contribution to this work by late professor Jens Rydell, who inspired us to carry out this project and helped both in the field collecting date and in the office working on the early stage of this note, his incredible energy will be missed.
FUNDING
The project was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency through the Vindval program (no. 2016-000101).
GA participated in all parts of the project; conceptualization, field work, analysis, drafting and writing. AR contributed to writing and drafting.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare there is no conflict of interest.
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