Dietary flexibility of insectivorous bats, <i>Eptesicus fuscus</i> and <i>Myotis lucifugus</i>, during <i>Magicicada</i> spp. Brood X emergence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Emergence of periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp. Davis, 1925, presents an ideal opportunity to study dietary flexibility and selective feeding behavior of bats. It is known that a wide array of taxa prey upon Magicicada spp., but few bat species have been documented to consume them. When larger than typical prey items, such as periodical cicadas, become abundant for a short time frame, insectivorous bats may exhibit alteration in dietary selection that provides insight into capacity and conditions for feeding. Evidence of Magicicada spp. consumption was detected in guano via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and physical detection in both Eptesicus fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796) and Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831), two bat species of different sizes and with different dietary profiles. The consumption of these larger prey items, when they are locally abundant, supports a display of opportunistic behavior and diet flexibility in these two bat species.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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