Fruiting trees provide fruit and insect resources for four tropical deer species

Cameras were set-up under 75 fruiting trees of Trewia nudiflora to obtain information on its terrestrial consumers and seed dispersers. While monitoring the videos we noticed that not all deer feeding interactions were of fruit, and here we report confirmed and unconfirmed observations of insect feeding. Confirmed feeding was noted when the insect could be clearly distinguished in the video. Unconfirmed feeding was noted when the deer was feeding on something other than the easily identifiable fruit or vegetation; in many of these videos insects can be seen moving away from the deer as they forage, but insect-capture could not be confirmed. A) Camera trapping and b), counted the number of red cotton bugs in one square meter plots (averaged across four plots per tree) for 20 trees (Karar et al., 2020).