ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION
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Animals that eat insects.
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Organisms that feed on rocks, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.
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Organisms that eat only pants
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Things that feed on dead organisms, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detritivores are a type of heterotroph, or organisms that consume dead and decaying organic matter known as detritus to obtain energy and nutrition. By doing so, they release nutrients held inside the organic matter back into the ecosystem. Millipedes and earthworms are common examples of detritivores found on land.
Detailed explanation-2: -: an organism (such as an earthworm or a fungus) that feeds on dead and decomposing organic matter.
Detailed explanation-3: -A detritivore is an organism that eats dead or decaying plants or animals as food. Detritivores include microorganisms such as bacteria and larger organisms such as fungi, insects, worms, and some crustaceans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Millipede Detritivore. While decomposers break down dead, organic materials, detritivores-like millipedes, earthworms, and termites-eat dead organisms and wastes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Earthworms, Millipedes and Woodlice are detritivores. Detritivores include microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi; invertebrate insects such as mites, beetles, butterflies and flies; mollusks such as slugs and snails; or soil-dwelling earthworms, millipedes and woodlice.