Caterpillar
Caterpillar. (apex)
The caterpillar is the primary consumer. If an organism eats plants, it is a primary consumer. If it eats other animals, it is a secondary or tertiary consumer.
A rabbit is a primary consumer since it is a herbivor a secondary consumer would be an animal that eats the primary consumer like a fox.
A primary consumer is the organism in the food chain that gets its energy directly from the producer. meaning if grass is a producer, cows would be an example of a primary consumer. in laymans terms the primary consumer eats the producer.
The caterpillar is the primary consumer. If an organism eats plants, it is a primary consumer. If it eats other animals, it is a secondary or tertiary consumer.
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Plant. Plants are always the producers
In a food chain, the Leaf-cutter ant is the primary consumer or secondary consumer. It will eat the primary producer in the chain then is killed by the secondary consumer. On the other hand, the ant eats the primary consumer that feeds from the primary producer.
Sun Plant - producer Animal - primary consumer Animal 2 - secondary consumer Animal 3 - tertiary consumer Hope this helps
Herbivores form the primary consumers in a food chain.
FOX- Apex
primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, quaterary consumer.
In the the food chain, the secondary consumer eats the primary consumer and the tertiary consumer eats the secondaryconsumer.