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Q: Why do ducks eat water snails and insects?
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What kinds of vegeation dog ducks eat?

ducks eat wild grain, grasses, vegetation. such as water snails and insects


What type of insects do ducks eat?

Ducks eat grasses, wild grains, and other other vegetation. Also water snails and some insects. Ducks eat what any aquatic bird eats. Seeds, grasses and bugs on the ground and aquatic plants and little snails and other organisms in the water.


Do ducks eat caterpillars?

Ducks eat a variety of things that include aquatic vegetation, grain, and insects. They are foragers and eat caterpillars, snails, and slugs.


Do ducks eat snails?

I know its hard to believe, but, ducks do eat snails.


What eat water lilies?

Beavers, muskrats, ducks, porcupines, and snails eat water lilies


What do ducks prey on or eat?

In the wild most ducks eat a variety of insects, water insects and grasses and plants.


What happens to the ducks if snails die?

If the snails die, either the ducks will have to find something else to eat or they will also die. But ducks are omnivores, so they eat a combination of plants and animals. Some of the plants that ducks eat are grass, weeds, algae, seeds, grain, berries, fruit and aquatic plants. Some of the animals that ducks eat are snails, mollusks, worms, frogs, salamanders, small fish and fish eggs. Ducks also eat insects.


What do ducks eat in the wild?

Wild ducks eat aquatic plants as well as grasses and other tender plants. They also eat seeds, bugs, slugs, snails, minnows, small frogs, and anything else too slow to avoid a snapping bill. Ducks are omnivores so eat both plants and animals.


What do Peking Ducks eat?

A Mandarin duck eats wild seeds and edible water plants but their meals change as the seasons change depending on availability. The meal includes small insects, snails and small fish. Female and male Mandarin ducks are symbols of everlasting love and marriage for many because these ducks are monogamists.


Do snails eat insects?

no


What does duck eat?

Ducks eat a variety of things depending on both their breed and their location. For example: Wood Ducks eat Duck Weed, small crayfish and insects while Harlequin Ducks live in salt water and eat mollusk, crustaceans and insects.


Do any animals eat the water lillie?

Beavers, muskrats, ducks, porcupines, and snails eat water lilies. Other animals, such as deers eat the seeds inside.