Nothing really, the plant is too spicky
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.
Javalina, deer, rabbits and others munch on cacti. Various birds eat the fruit of the saguaro and prickly pear.Javalina, deers, rabbits and humans eat cacti. Various birds eat the fruit of the saguaro and prickly pear. Insects and small animals pollinates the cacti sometimes.
About the only animal that will eat any form of cholla cacti are various scale insects.
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.
Lots of people do, in fact, a few animals (most commonly desert animals eating CACTI PEAR)
people leopards lions (although these will only eat the small or the young ones,] jackals and hyenas.
Yes: Prickly Pears, Barrel cacti, Saguaro cacti, Aztekium cacti, and Echinopsis cacti a.k.a the hedgehog cactus
cactus for a single plant cacti for plural
All cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are cacti.
Some cacti are edible such as a prickly pear cactus. Their pads and fruit's spines can be removed or burned off to eat. Some cacti however aren't edible such as the teddy bear cactus due to its spines which are heavily distriputed across the plant.
No, mealworms do not eat cacti and cacti do not occur naturally in the Sahara. Cacti are natives to American deserts.
In the United States, javelina and deer will eat prickly pear cacti. Some insects and a few rodents as well as the desert tortoise may dine on cacti.I do not know of any animals that eat cacti, on account of their spines, however, some bats, bees, and probably butterflies eat cactus nectar, and various animals may eat their fruit. Humans, however, do eat edible cacti, because they can cut off the spines. An example of an edible cacti is the prickly pear cactus.Deer and rabbits eat the cactus flowerbuds...