Few cacti offer animals an easy meal as most are covered by dense spines. However, prickly pear cacti are often eaten by tortoises, javelina, antelope, deer, rabbits, hares and some small rodents as well as some insects.
In the desert, animals like desert tortoises, rabbits, and insects eat cacti. This impacts the ecosystem by controlling cacti population growth and providing food for other animals in the food chain.
About the only animal that will eat any form of cholla cacti are various scale insects.
people leopards lions (although these will only eat the small or the young ones,] jackals and hyenas.
Lots of people do, in fact, a few animals (most commonly desert animals eating CACTI PEAR)
Yes, many cacti genera are found in the desert.
Yes, there are numerous species of cacti in the Mojave Desert.
Yes, cacti grow in the Great Basin Desert.Yes, cacti grow in the Great Basin Desert.
Yes, there are cacti in the deserts of California.
Yes, I'm pretty sure there are cacti in the Thar Desert
Sonoran Desert is the desert in North America which has Cacti.
Mealworms do not eat cacti.
The desert tortoise, javelina and deer will eat prickly pear cacti.