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Insights into Entomology: Types of Diets and Feeding Habits

Discover the fascinating world of entomology through the study of three basic types of diets in insects: saprophytic, phytophagous, and carnivorous. Explore examples of insect feeding behaviors and adaptations, from recycling nutrients to predatory strategies and parasitic relationships. Unveil the diverse ways insects consume food and interact with their environment.

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Insights into Entomology: Types of Diets and Feeding Habits

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  1. Collections II: Entomology Diet and Feeding

  2. Three basic types of diets: • saprophytic • phytophagous • carnivorous

  3. Saprophytic • recycle nutrients • Types of food sources: • Plant remains • Animal corpses • Animal feces

  4. Saprophytic examples: Dung beetles recycle animal feces Maggots feeding on animal remains

  5. Phytophagous • consume plants (3 main types): • Polyphagous: (eg grasshoppers) consume many species of plants • Oligophagous: (eg wander butterfly larvae) consume a few species of related plants • Monophagous: (eg citrus butterfly, white cedar moth) consume a single species of plant

  6. Plant-eaters mouthparts: • Chewing - leaves, stems, roots, fruit, wood, flowers, pollen • Piercing/sucking - leaves, roots, stems (either phloem or xylem) or nectar • Sucking or lapping - nectar or sap

  7. Chewing examples: Leaf blisters Sawfly larvae Leaf mines

  8. Piercing/sucking examples: Lerps – protective outercovering of jumping plant lice Spittle Bug

  9. Sucking or lapping examples: Honey Bee Butterfly

  10. Carnivorous • Carnivorous insects (animal tissues): • Predatorseats insects or animals • speed (e.g. robber fly, dragonfly) • trap (antlion larva) • use of modified appendages (e.g. raptorial legs of mantid, extendable labium of dragonfly nymph). • Parasites  live off a host but do not kill it. • Ectoparasites live externally on the host; • Endoparasites live inside the host. • Parasitoids kill the host.

  11. Predator examples: Praying mantis with prey An Ant lion Pit

  12. Parasite example: Mosquito about to feed on blood

  13. Parasitoid example: A tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) parasitised by braconid wasp larvae

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