What animals other than worms decompose things?

Answer 1

well worms feed of plants and dead bodies or carcases so they eat the last animal in the food chain and when they go to the toilet the plants can use this as nutrition making them decomposers. but they eat plants making them consumers as well so this makes them both consumers and decomposers making it hard to place them in an ecosystem or ecoweb

Answer 2

Worms decompose objects by eating them or by biting into them. If a worm eats a leaf or a piece of a leaf, it only digests part of the leaf. The rest passes through the worm. It has bacteria all over it. The bacteria decomposes the worm's waste products.

Also, leaves resist bacteria. They are hard on the top and hard on the bottom so that bacteria will not attack them. It is quite difficult for bacteria to decompose the leaves from a number of plants. Some leaves would remain on the forest floor for years if something were not done. Why aren't we covered with leaves?

If something tears a leaf, then bacteria can get between the top and bottom layer and decompose the leaf. If a worm takes a bite out of a leaf, it tears the leaf. Bacteria can get between the top and bottom layers. The bacteria goes to work and decomposes the leaf.

Because worms poke holes in leaves, we are not overrun with leaves.

Answer 3

correct me if im wrong but i believe that they eat the waste of other animals and break it down into soil which helps plants, etc. grow. they will decompose dead animals, their waste (poop), things that fall out of their mouths, etc. Hope i helped!

Answer 4

they are called decomposer's because they feed off waste and dead animals, this is all the nutrition that plants need to grow

--and it starts the cycle again

Answer 5

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