Diet composition
The grain diet consisted of grass seeds (e.g., Red grass Themeda
triandra , Rhode grass Chloris gayana, Guinea grass panicum
maximum, and Love grass Erasgrostis tenella ) available to
Village weavers in the wild and crushed cultivated grains (e.g., Pearl
millet Pennisetum glaucum , Sorghum Sorghum bicolor , MaizeZea mays , and Rice Oryza sativa ). The insects’ diet
consisted of crushed air-dried grasshoppers and immobilized ants,
grasshoppers, and termites caught in the AFR using sweep nets in known
foraging patches used by Village weavers. The fruit diet consisted of
ripe fruits of Common lantana Lantana camara, Sumach plantRhus natalensis, Pawpaw Carica papaya , and WatermelonCitrullus lanatus .