CATDOLL : CATDOLL:Are locusts herbivorous animals?

Are locusts herbivorous?

To be precise, locusts are a kind of herbivorous insects. As for whether they can decompose cellulose, you see that tree bark and straw are all natural cellulose. When have you ever seen them chewing tree bark or chewing straw? They are pests, they eat food happily, and they eat all the crops that humans can eat. So from an evolutionary point of view, there is no need for them to decompose cellulose. There is everything in crops, such as protein and oil. Why should they make things difficult for themselves to digest cellulose? There are very few insects that can digest cellulose and they are very special. First of all, since they can decompose fiber, their diet must be very simple. For example, they only chew wood or cotton, like termites, which only chew wood. Because think about it, in the process of evolution, fiber is more difficult to digest. If my diet contains both protein and fiber, then I will definitely give priority to digesting protein. After a long time, the function of digesting fiber will be useless, and the redundant function will definitely be eliminated by evolution, just like the degeneration of human appendix. So here we infer from the diet of locusts that it will not decompose cellulose. The reason why biology is interesting is that it has many rules. I am very happy to discuss biological issues with you. I hope that Organic Infiltration will discuss and study with you again.

To be precise, locusts are omnivorous animals. They are herbivorous only when plant food is plentiful. When food is scarce and the locust density is high, they will eat anything.

Locusts are gregarious short-horned grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae and the order Orthoptera.

Diet: Herbivorous. They like to eat thick leaves, such as sweet potatoes, hollow cabbage, cabbage, etc. Both adults and nymphs of locusts can chew the stems and leaves of plants with their well-developed chewing mouthparts.

Its digestive system contains digestive enzymes such as cellulase, amylase, pectinase, maltase, etc., so it can naturally break down cellulose.

What kind of animals do locust-like insects specifically attack, and with what results?

Locusts are herbivorous insects and do not attack animals.

Locusts belong to the class Insecta, order Orthoptera, and include species of the superfamily Tetrigoidea, Superfamily Grasshopper, and Superfamily Acridoidea. There are more than 10,000 species of locusts in the world, and more than 1,000 species in my country, distributed in tropical and temperate regions around the world.

Locusts are herbivorous, and their nutritional needs are strong during the adult stage, accounting for more than 75% of their total food intake throughout their lifetime. They use their chewing mouthparts to bite plant leaves and flower buds into notches and holes. In serious cases, they will eat up a large area of ​​leaves and flower buds, causing significant economic losses to agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. Some species are oligophagous pests, such as the East Asian migratory locust, which only feeds on plants in the Gramineae and Cyperaceae families; some species are polyphagous, such as the large-pad sharp-winged locust. When the season is dry, they are more greedy, and a large amount of food they eat is excreted out of the body without being fully digested, so that they can obtain a large amount of water from it to meet their physiological metabolic needs, thereby increasing the degree of damage to crops.

There are no carnivorous locusts, so locusts will not attack any animals.

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