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Earthworms, flatworms, water lice, some fish, termites, and crabs are detritivores that eat dead and decomposing organic material. Any animal, or consumer, that eats insects can eat them. This includes birds, most bears, frogs, and any other consumer eats other animals.
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∙ 12y agoDetritivores eat detritus, namely organic material left from the death of an organism. In other words, they eat dead plants and animals.
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∙ 11y agodetritivores are animals that feed on organic waste, similar to herbivores and carnivores.
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Are snakes detritivores?
No: they are predators and scavengers, but not detritivores.
What are examples of land detritivores?
Earthworms, fungus and slugs. A Detrivore feeds on dead or decaying matter.
Do detritivores live in the Sahara?
No, detritivores do not live in the Sahara. Detritivores usually live in soil containing decomposing organic matter, but they can also live in marine ecosystems.
Are decomposers and detritivores more like a manufacturing company or a recycling company?
A recycling company. De-composers and detritivores convert waste matter back into energy.
Are humans detritivores?
Humans are not decomposers. They are consumers.
What eats Wood Louse?
woodlouse are detritivores, feeding mostly on dead plant matter.
What eats vegetarians?
Eventually, when vegetarians die, they are eaten by detritivores. These are organisms which gain nutrients from waste.
Are snakes detritivores?
No: they are predators and scavengers, but not detritivores.
Is it detritivores or detrivores?
The word is 'detritivores'.
Are turkey vultures detritivores?
Eagles are not detritivores
What eats an ameoba?
Some amoebae are predatory and live by consuming bacteria and other protists. Some are detritivores and eat dead organic material.
What is a sentence using the word detritivores?
The detritivores have already begun feeding on this corpse. Detritivores contribute to decomposition.
Are seeds detrivores?
Seeds are not detritivores
Which animals in the woodland are detritivores?
Woodlice and slugs are detritivores of the woodlands.
What does detritivores?
The organism which consume detritus are called detritivores e.g., earthworm.
What scavergers are also detritivores?
Vultures and Hyenas are both scavengers and detritivores.
Do detritivores eat herbivores?
Neither!An organism that eats detritus is termed a decomposer.A herbivore eats living plants, and a carnivore living animals. Decomposers make a meal out of fallen leaves, animal droppings, animal corpses, dead plants, whatever is in the compost heap, and so on.
