Known prey organisms

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Coleoptera preys on:
Plectoptera
Odonata
Hemiptera
Psectrocladius
Rotifera
Cladocera
Chironomidae
detritus

alpine vegetation
Diptera
Eleucine
Cyperus
Cenchrus
Artemisia frigida
Bouteloua gracilis
Oenothera laciniata
Psoralidium tenuiflorum
Hesperostipa comata
Heterotheca canescens
Aristida purpurea
Carex
Gutierrezia
Ratibida columnifera
Ericameria nauseosa
Cleome serrulata
Liatris punctata
Atriplex canescens
Thelesperma filifolium
Coleoptera
Acari
Collembola
Isoptera
live leaves
live wood
roots
pollen
fruit
seeds
flowers
fungi
Isopoda
nectar and floral
leaves
wood
Miniopterus australis

Based on studies in:
USA: Florida, South Florida (Swamp)
Russia (Agricultural)
Puerto Rico, El Verde (Rainforest)
USA: Illinois (Forest)
USA: Arizona (Forest, Montane)
USA: Montana (Tundra)
USA: California, Cabrillo Point (Grassland)
USA: Alaska (Tundra)
India, Rajasthan Desert (Desert or dune)

This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.

L. D. Harris and G. B. Bowman, Vertebrate predator subsystem. In: Grasslands, Systems Analysis and Man, A. I. Breymeyer and G. M. Van Dyne, Eds. (International Biological Programme Series, no. 19, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England, 1980), pp. 591-
N. N. Smirnov, Food cycles in sphagnous bogs, Hydrobiologia 17:175-182, from p. 179 (1961).
A. C. Twomey, The bird population of an elm-maple forest with special reference to aspection, territorialism, and coactions, Ecol. Monogr. 15(2):175-205, from p. 202 (1945).
D. I. Rasmussen, Biotic communities of Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, Ecol. Monogr. 11(3):228-275, from p. 261 (1941).
J. Brown, Ecological investigations of the Tundra biome in the Prudhoe Bay Region, Alaska, Special Report, no. 2, Biol. Pap. Univ. Alaska (1975), from p. xiv.
L. D. Harris and L. Paur, A quantitative food web analysis of a shortgrass community, Technical Report No. 154, Grassland Biome. U.S. International Biological Program (1972), from p. 17.
D. L. Pattie and N. A. M. Verbeek, Alpine birds of the Beartooth Mountains, Condor 68:167-176 (1966); Alpine mammals of the Beartooth Mountains, Northwest Sci. 41(3):110-117 (1967).
I. K. Sharma, A study of ecosystems of the Indian desert, Trans. Indian Soc. Desert Technol. and Univ. Center Desert Stud. 5(2):51-55, from p. 52 and A study of agro-ecosystems in the Indian desert, ibid. 5:77-82, from p. 79 1980).
Waide RB, Reagan WB (eds) (1996) The food web of a tropical rainforest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org