Grizzly bear feeding activity at alpine army cutworm moth aggregation sites in northwest Montana

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: White, Jr., Don, Kendall, Katherine C, Picton, Harold D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1998
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Lone; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-185; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z97-185

Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) consume army cutworm moths (Euxoa auxiliaris) from late June through mid-September at alpine moth aggregation sites in Glacier National Park, Montana. To better understand the importance of army cutworm moths to grizzly bears, we determined the sex and age cla...