TABLE 1.

Twenty most commonly detected prey families for each bat species, ranked by incidence

Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus)					Big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
Order	Family	Incidence	Mean RRA	Mean wPO	Order	Family	Incidence	Mean RRA	Mean wPO
Diptera	Chironomidae	138	0.213	0.077	Coleoptera	Elateridae	83	0.160	0.061
Lepidoptera	Tortricidae	93	0.037	0.041	Diptera	Limoniidae	71	0.100	0.055
Diptera	Limoniidae	78	0.036	0.031	Coleoptera	unidentified	70	0.010	0.045
Coleoptera	Elateridae	75	0.057	0.036	Coleoptera	Carabidae	67	0.018	0.047
Diptera	unidentified	71	0.013	0.028	Trichoptera	Hydropsychidae	65	0.196	0.070
Lepidoptera	Gelechiidae	58	0.015	0.028	Coleoptera	Scarabaeidae	56	0.075	0.049
Ephemeroptera	Caenidae	53	0.044	0.022	Lepidoptera	Tortricidae	54	0.030	0.037
Hemiptera	Miridae	51	0.011	0.022	Diptera	Chironomidae	45	0.063	0.036
Lepidoptera	Depressariidae	50	0.049	0.020	Coleoptera	Pyrochroidae	43	0.020	0.028
Trichoptera	Hydropsychidae	49	0.083	0.028	Diptera	Tipulidae	42	0.004	0.023
Diptera	Culicidae	46	0.028	0.021	Coleoptera	Cerambycidae	36	0.007	0.022
Diptera	Tipulidae	44	0.003	0.019	Hemiptera	Miridae	35	0.010	0.020
Hemiptera	Corixidae	41	0.021	0.017	Coleoptera	Hydrophilidae	33	0.026	0.021
Trichoptera	Leptoceridae	40	0.016	0.017	Ephemeroptera	Heptageniidae	32	0.044	0.025
Ephemeroptera	Heptageniidae	39	0.017	0.018	Megaloptera	Corydalidae	30	0.058	0.029
Diptera	Psychodidae	37	0.028	0.015	Hymenoptera	Ichneumonidae	27	0.004	0.015
Hymenoptera	Ichneumonidae	34	0.002	0.013	Diptera	unidentified	26	0.005	0.022
Coleoptera	unidentified	32	0.002	0.014	Coleoptera	Tenebrionidae	21	0.003	0.013
Coleoptera	Carabidae	31	0.013	0.015	Hemiptera	Cicadellidae	21	0.000	0.013
Diptera	Ceratopogonidae	30	0.001	0.010	Coleoptera	Silphidae	21	0.001	0.010

Abbreviations: RRA, relative read abundance; wPO, weighted percent occurrence.