J 2007

Bat bugs (Cimex pipistrelli, Heteroptera) and roost switching in bats

BARTONIČKA, Tomáš

Basic information

Original name

Bat bugs (Cimex pipistrelli, Heteroptera) and roost switching in bats

Name in Czech

Štěnice (Cimex pipistrelli, Heteroptera) a střídání úkrytů netopýry

Authors

BARTONIČKA, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz, Naturforschende Gesellschaft der Oberlau, 2007, 0941-0627

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Spain

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/07:00020101

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

bats bugs roost switching

Tags

Reviewed
Změněno: 21/9/2007 12:46, doc. Mgr. Tomáš Bartonička, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The objectives of the presented study is to extend the knowledge about roosting strategies of bats and interaction of bats with roost ectoparasites, bat bugs of group Cimex pipistrelli. Results of the previous project have shown frequent movements between different shelters in P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus. This study was focussed on potential causality of the bat movements and the dynamics in numbers of the bat bugs. Furthermore, the level of comfort behaviour (grooming) in adult females was assessed. Behavioural patterns was recorded by a digital camera in experimental volary. Experimental sessions were held in the volary equipped with two bat boxes and under standard microclimatic. The level of autogrooming correlated positively with the number of bat bugs using in the boxes during experimental sessions. Females of bats were not stressed by presence of bugs but were stressed by the puncture of bat bugs after which they usually left the roost. Bat bugs did not be able to suck on bats during the daily torpor because of low body temperature. Only huge densities of the roost parasites and contemporary high roost temperature, which limite bats go into torpor and decrease their body temperature, could be the reason to switch roosts. Bat bugs, bats, roost switching

In Czech

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Links

GP206/07/P098, research and development project
Name: Parazitace štěnicemi (Cimicidae): možná příčina střídání úkrytů netopýry
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Parasitation by bed bugs (Cimicidae): a possible cause of roost switching by bats
MSM0021622416, plan (intention)
Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time