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  • From: John Hendrickson <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Bats for cucumber beetles
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:16:59 -0600

Well, isn't that astonishingly good news! Those numbers seem to suggest that cucumber beetles are a preferred (or at least abundant) food source for the big brown bat. I will admit that I was skeptical about whether bats eat cucumber beetles when this topic came up on market-farming. I guess this means the cucumber beetles are active and flying at night. I have bats in my barn (don't know what species) but had a really bad infestation of cucumber beetles last year. When they fly out of the barn at dusk they always seem to be headed down towards the nearby river. I don't know if they stay down there to feed or are just going down for a drink before feeding throughout the area. How large an area does a bat colony typically use for feeding?

-John

John Hendrickson
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1535 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608-265-3704
www.cias.wisc.edu




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