IDENTIFIKASI SERANGGA PAKAN WALET DAERAH RAWA DI KECAMATAN GAMBUT PADA MUSIM PANCAROBA

Abstract

Swiftleft is the bird of apodiformes ordo which has aerial characteristic, fast flying, small body size and crescent wings. They live with big community for each hunting insects areas. The way for get the hunting insects area is same for go up and go back way (can be 50 km). The swamp of gambut districts has more spesific insects that eaten by Swiftlefts. So many diversity of insects will be found for Swiftleft's natural feed. The identification of insects that eaten by Swiftleft just was observed by surgery method. The result showed the diversity of insects that eaten by Swiftleft at swamp of gambuts districts on transition seasion were hymenoptera (family of Formicidae), Coleoptera (family of Hydrophillidae, Bostrichidae, Coccinelidae, Scarabaeidae, Hispidae and Staphylinidae), and Dyptera (family of Cullicidae and tachinidae). Total of each family's insects were formicidae 64 bodies, Hydrophillidae 10 bodies, Bostrichidae 3 bodies, Coccinellidae 3 bodies, Hispidae 1 bodies, Staphylinidae 2
bodies, Scarabaeidae 1 bodies, Cullicidae 2 bodies and Tachinidae 21 bodies. So
hymenoptera from formicidae family is the most exist for Swiftleft's nature feed insects.