Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth

Outbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffer-mailer, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats' prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cycli...

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Autores: Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio, Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón, Goiti Ugarte, Urtzi, Arrizabalaga Escudero, Aitor, Nogueras, Jesús, Ibáñez, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:moth pest
pine forest
bat ensemble
foraging guild
faecal dna
thaumetopoea-pityocampa den
lepidoptera
population
pheromone
predation
quality
service
canada
flight
diet
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spelling Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary mothGarín Atorrasagasti, IgnacioAiartza Azurtza, José RamónGoiti Ugarte, UrtziArrizabalaga Escudero, AitorNogueras, JesúsIbáñez, Carlosmoth pestpine forestbat ensembleforaging guildfaecal dnathaumetopoea-pityocampa denlepidopterapopulationpheromonepredationqualityservicecanadaflightdietOutbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffer-mailer, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats' prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cyclical outbreaks attract a wide array of bat species from different foraging guilds. We test whether bats feed upon T. pityocampa in the Iberian Peninsula irrespective of the predator's ecological and morphological features. We found that seven out of ten bat species belonging to different foraging guilds contained T. pityocampa DNA in their faeces and no difference was found in the foraging frequency among foraging guilds. A different size of the typical prey or the lack of fondness for moths can explain the absence of the pest in some bat species. Moreover, the intraspecific foraging frequency of T. pityocampa also changed with the sampling site likely representing differential availability of the moth. Lack of information on flight and dispersal behavior or the tympanate nature of the adult moth complicates understanding how different foraging guilds of bats prey upon the same prey. Our data suggests that T. pityocampa is a remarkable food source for many thousands of individual bats in the study area and we anticipate that more bats besides the species studied here are consuming this moth.The Basque Government (project IT754-13) and the Spanish Government (MINECO project CGL2012-38610) funded this work. Logistical support was provided by the Laboratorio de Ecologia Molecular, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC (LEM-EBD). The Government of the Basque Country (Grant BFI-2011-245) and the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU provided grant support to AAE. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.PeerJ202020202019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/41384reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/CGL2012-38610/https://peerj.com/articles/7169/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/© 2019 Garin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.Atribución 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/413842026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
title Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
spellingShingle Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio
moth pest
pine forest
bat ensemble
foraging guild
faecal dna
thaumetopoea-pityocampa den
lepidoptera
population
pheromone
predation
quality
service
canada
flight
diet
title_short Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
title_full Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
title_fullStr Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
title_full_unstemmed Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
title_sort Bats from different foraging guilds prey upon the pine processionary moth
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio
Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón
Goiti Ugarte, Urtzi
Arrizabalaga Escudero, Aitor
Nogueras, Jesús
Ibáñez, Carlos
author Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio
author_facet Garín Atorrasagasti, Ignacio
Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón
Goiti Ugarte, Urtzi
Arrizabalaga Escudero, Aitor
Nogueras, Jesús
Ibáñez, Carlos
author_role author
author2 Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón
Goiti Ugarte, Urtzi
Arrizabalaga Escudero, Aitor
Nogueras, Jesús
Ibáñez, Carlos
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv moth pest
pine forest
bat ensemble
foraging guild
faecal dna
thaumetopoea-pityocampa den
lepidoptera
population
pheromone
predation
quality
service
canada
flight
diet
topic moth pest
pine forest
bat ensemble
foraging guild
faecal dna
thaumetopoea-pityocampa den
lepidoptera
population
pheromone
predation
quality
service
canada
flight
diet
description Outbreaks of the processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis & Schiffer-mailer, 1775), a forest pest from the Palearctic, are thought to induce a behavioral response of bats, but up to now the moth has been seldom identified as bats' prey. Studies on bat diets suggest moths with cyclical outbreaks attract a wide array of bat species from different foraging guilds. We test whether bats feed upon T. pityocampa in the Iberian Peninsula irrespective of the predator's ecological and morphological features. We found that seven out of ten bat species belonging to different foraging guilds contained T. pityocampa DNA in their faeces and no difference was found in the foraging frequency among foraging guilds. A different size of the typical prey or the lack of fondness for moths can explain the absence of the pest in some bat species. Moreover, the intraspecific foraging frequency of T. pityocampa also changed with the sampling site likely representing differential availability of the moth. Lack of information on flight and dispersal behavior or the tympanate nature of the adult moth complicates understanding how different foraging guilds of bats prey upon the same prey. Our data suggests that T. pityocampa is a remarkable food source for many thousands of individual bats in the study area and we anticipate that more bats besides the species studied here are consuming this moth.
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