3.1 Insects define GFWO localities
We collectively spent 560 hours recording GFWO activities and found 55 GFWO nests, along with an additional 2,880 observation hours to define GFWO home ranges. We spent 220 hours collecting insect samples across 24 of these home ranges and 24 unoccupied equivalent ranges, and found that insect orders Coleoptera (W = 19, P < 0.001), Orthoptera (W = 13, P < 0.001), and Hymenoptera (W = 186, P < 0.036) had significantly higher masses on GFWO occupied sites than unoccupied sites. All other insect orders were not significantly different.
GFWO home range sizes were negatively correlated with the same three orders of insects, Coleoptera (P < 0.001, rho = -0.74, n = 24), Orthoptera (P = 0.007, rho = -0.55, n = 24), and Hymenoptera (P = 0.009, rho = -0.53, n = 24) (see Figure 1). The biomass of Phasmatodea was positively correlated (P = 0.045, rho = 0.41, n = 24) with GFWO home range size, and all other insect orders were not significantly correlated.