CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Scavenger fish? Why are butterflies scavengers?

1. Saprophagous fish?

Saprophagous fish are fish that feed on biological detritus. Representative fish include: carp, dace, pike, mullet, etc.

Carp, this type of fish mainly feeds on dead animals and plants in the water and mud, and also eats benthic algae and invertebrates. In theory, it is a filter-feeding fish similar to silver carp and bighead carp. Carp, pike and mullet belong to this category.

Mud fish is a tropical fish of the order Cypriniformes and family Cyprinidae of the class Actinopterygii. There are many species of dace, commonly known as earth dace, snow dace, dace male, and flower dace. It is also known as snow dace (Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement), dace (Food Materia Medica by Yao Kecheng), earth dace (Compendium of Materia Medica Qiuyuan), etc. Dace can be roughly divided into three types: wheat dace, Thai dace, and earth dace.

Barracuda is a near-shore fish that likes to live in coastal areas, river estuaries or salt water, and can also enter fresh water. Barracuda likes to live in groups, is lively and good at jumping. It often swims upstream in groups in countercurrents and eats organic matter in the mud at the bottom of the water. It is distributed in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.

2. Why are butterflies scavengers?

Butterflies are not scavengers, they feed on nectar and plant sap.

Butterfly is a general term for animals belonging to the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Lepidoptera, and suborder Hammerhorn. There are about 14,000 species of butterflies in the world, most of which are distributed in America, especially in the Amazon River Basin. There are more than 1,200 species in China.

Butterflies are generally brightly colored, with many stripes on their bodies, rich colors, and various spots on their wings and bodies. The largest butterfly can have a wingspan of about 28 to 30 cm, and the smallest is only about 0.7 cm.

3. Ancient poetry about not eating rotten food?

From The Analects Confucius was very particular about diet. He said that one should eat on time, "one should not eat out of season", and he "never tires of fine food; never tires of fine meat".

4. What is saprophytic food?

Detritus: Also known as the detritus food chain, it is a food chain that starts with dead organisms or detritus. The remains of animals and plants are the starting point of the food chain. The decayed remains of animals and plants are decomposed and used by microorganisms in the soil or water. The latter has a saprophytic relationship with the former. The decayed animal carcasses or plant bodies become detritus and then begin to be used by microorganisms. In a biota, most of the net production is not consumed by other organisms until they die.

5. Ranking of scavengers?

Scavengers include hyenas and vultures.

Simply put, scavengers are organisms that feed on the corpses, decomposition products, feces, etc. of animals or plants. In nature, scavengers that people are more familiar with include cockroaches, termites, dung beetles, vultures, hyenas, etc. While other animals like to eat fresh food, they do the opposite. The more rotten the food is, the more they enjoy eating it.

In the camp of scavengers, they have a very clear division of labor. For example, hyenas and vultures are responsible for eating the meat of animals, and then handing it over to microorganisms for processing. After such a set of processes, the carcasses of animals are cleaned up. At the same time, it will also add a lot of fertilizer to nature and play a role in protecting the ecological balance.

6. Cold water migratory fish?

It should be the Qinghai Huangyu. The Qinghai Lake on the plateau is a cold water lake, and the Huangyu migrates back to spawn.

7. What are the scavengers?

There are many types of scavengers, some eat plants, and some eat animal remains. Small scavengers include earthworms, millipedes, termites, flies, etc.

Fish include some hagfish, some species of shrimp and crabs.

Birds include vultures, storks, and griffons, and mammals include African hyenas, etc.

8. Do snakes eat carrion?

Snakes do not eat scavenging food. They mainly eat live prey. Snakes eat live prey directly. I have not seen snakes like to eat rotten meat. There are many types of snakes, from small blind snakes to large pythons. Their food types are also different. Blind snakes mainly eat termites, and pythons mainly eat deer, lambs, etc. No matter which type of snake, they will not eat rotten meat.

9. Do crickets eat carrion?

Food.

Crickets are omnivorous insects. In nature, they feed on a variety of living, dead, or decaying organic matter or plant debris.

Crickets' diet is not very strict. They are herbivorous, carnivorous, and also scavengers. They can take various tissue and organ systems of plants, such as roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds of fruits. They will also prey on eggs, larvae, pupae, molting and exuviae of invertebrates, as well as scale insects, aphids or other small arthropods. They can also eat various organic residues, rotten plants, seeds and seedlings, fungi, etc.

10. Are mosquitoes scavengers?

Mosquitoes do not eat carrion.

Mosquitoes are a family under the order Diptera of the class Insecta. The creatures in this family are usually called mosquitoes or mosquitoes. They are tiny flying insects with piercing and sucking mouthparts.

Females usually feed on blood, while males feed on plant sap.

The blood-sucking female mosquito is an intermediate host for other pathogens such as dengue fever, malaria, yellow fever, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, etc. Mosquitoes are distributed on all continents except Antarctica.