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Is a beetle a scavenger or a decomposer?

Updated: 10/8/2023

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∙ 12y ago

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no is is a decomposer.

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∙ 8y ago

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Erin Hand ∙

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∙ 2y ago

A consumer, it depends on other plant/animals as a food source.

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Bennett Bode ∙

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∙ 2y ago

Yes it is the secondary consumer

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Wiki User

∙ 12y ago

It can be, but it can also not. An example of a scavenger is the dung beetle, which rolls up balls of dung to feed its young. A ladybug would would not be a decomposer, because it is a predator, hunting aphids that would feed on leaves.

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Wiki User

∙ 15y ago

consumer scavenger. consumer scavenger.

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Wiki User

∙ 14y ago

It is a consumer.

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∙ 4y ago

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Decomposer

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decomposer

What is a water scavenger beetle?

The water scavenger beetle's predator are birds and fish.

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Is dung beetle a producer or consumer or decomposer

Is the giant panda a consumer scavenger decomposer?

concumer and scavenger

Which term describes an organism such as a dung beetle or a cockroach that consumes decaying or dead organic material as its primary source of nutrition?

Decomposer, scavenger or carrion-eater

Is the animal kingdom a decomposer or scavenger?

scavenger because they hunt for food.

Is a scavenger a producer a decomposer or a consumer?

A scavenger is a consumer that we really call a decomposer since they break down food that is already dead.