Why some termites eat wood?
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Termites feed mainly on wood or other materials containing cellulose. The cellulose is partially digested by protozoans living symbiotically in the intestines of the worker (see Symbiosis). Enzymes produced by the protozoans break down the cellulose into components that can be assimilated by the termites. Digested cellulose is distributed by the workers to members lacking the protozoans. Some species feed on vegetable molds that they cultivate. Other species obtain a special fluid secreted by beetles, known as termitophiles, that live as guests within the termite community.
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Preying mantis, carnivorous crickets, spiders, lizards (especially geckos, as they come out at night like cockroaches), shrews, Antechinuses, Planigales (or any small carnivorous marsupial), birds (if they get the chance) and rolled  up newspapers. There are many different species of cockroach in the world, the ones that get into houses are usually Periplaneta americana and they live nearly everywhere and fill even the most hardened biologist (me) with revulsion. They have been sprayed by so many chemicals in their evolutionary history that they are immune to any chemicals that are sub-lethal to human beings. If you try to take out cockroaches with chemical weapons, you are probably goin to take out yourselves. In the bush cockroaches perform important functions in breaking down plant material. In the house they perform the function of strengthening stereotypical domestic roles- the woman screams and the guy comes out with a raised shoe and bashes the cockroach into a crunchy paste. \n\nLife on Earth is interesting, isn't it.
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As MissA excellently stated, cows (and other ruminants) require significant processing and digestion of cellulose rich material in order to garner nutrition from grass.\n\nEven with all that processing, they still only get some of the energy from the cellulose.  The rest gets passed through the system in the form of the rather high amount of poop that cows produce.\n\nHorses deal with it in another way, passing through vast quantities of low quality forage, getting the minimal amount of nutrition they can, and then passing it through quickly.  That's why horse poop is full of pretty much undigested grasses.  Elephants are the extreme end of this strategy, using massive quantities of forage, with very little nutrition per pound, but by eating so much of it, they're able to get enough energy to survive.\n\nSmaller herbivores, like rabbits, use other methods.  Rabbits practice what is known as refection, in which they actually eat their own feces.  Rather than horking it up as cud, they poop out little green pellets, eat them and send them for processing again.  The little brown pellets we see as rabbit raisins are actually the end result of several passes through the digestive system.\n\nTermites are the masters of cellulose breakdown, however.  They accomplish it with the help of endosymbiotic bacteria that are able to break apart the cellulose on a molecular level, turning it into its component sugars.  Termite guts are literally filled with these bacteria, and without them, the termites would starve.\n\nOur own digestive systems have evolved for an omnivorous diet.  We do pretty well with meat, grains, fruits, and veggies, but simply don't have the length and size of digestion chambers that would be required to break down cellulose.  If we did, we'd be built more like, well, like gorillas - with big, farty guts processing plant material all day.  Of course, some of us are closer to that ability than others already.
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Maybe they eat footballs too, I'm trying to figure how ants relate to footy, with regards to your question.
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Knowing the food habits of the particular ant species is important in ant management because it may enable the location and elimination of the food that is attracting the ants to the site, it can help to locate foraging trails to track the ants back to their nest, and it can help to choose an effective bait. \n\nAnts feed on many different types of food. Some species will feed on practically anything; others may limit their food to a narrow range. Ants infesting structures are typically feeding on "people food," both food in storage (sugar, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc.) and food from spills and garbage. But they may also be preying on other insects or scavenging on dead insects in windows or lights.\n\nFood preferences are often seasonal. When the queen is actively laying eggs, worker ants typically gather protein- based foods for the queen. At other times they may ignore protein foods completely and restrict their foraging to sugars and greases. \n\nMany ants obtain sugar by feeding on honeydew, a sweet substance secreted by aphids and other plant-sucking insects. They often defend these insects from predators and tend them as if they were their personal food supply. Indoor infestations of ants are occasionally traced to large populations of aphids on outdoor foundation plants or indoor houseplants.
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My understanding it comes from wood pecker.
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The ants harvest leaves and take them to the burrow, a fungus decomposes them to make ant food, a mold parasitises the crop and a bacterium is a cure for the mold.  A menoge la quatro.
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They live in the forest or in suburbs.  They nest in tree cavities, old logs, etc.  They are omnivores, meaning they eat a variety of plant and animal life.  Birds, frogs, insects, vegetables, fruits.
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pigs used to be fed anything including human waste. so i guess that you could feed them scraps of wood just so they would have something to munch on. i know that you can feed cows sawdust but not for very long.
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sugar & grease is what ants are usually attracted to.\n\nput out a potato chip & watch them go wild (it's the grease in the potato chip that they are after)
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The green flesh rots away and the skeleton becomes visable. The skeleton is just wood ribs inside the cactus that support its weight. Eventually it will fall over and termites will eat the dead wood until it is gone. Here is a picture:\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/patholleran/ParkVision/Saguaro/Sa-36.jpg
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It is exactly the same reason why cannibals eat clowns. Because they taste funny.
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some gymnosperms provide lumber, like cedars and pines
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Moles are carnivores - they mostly eat worms and almost anything else that falls into their tunnels. Their tunnels are like traps for centipedes, millipedes, beetles, insect larvae, etc.\nMoles don't often feed on the surface. They have been observed eating small vertebrates such as lizards.
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Young elephants eat the feces of their mother to obtain the necessary bacteria for the proper digestion of the vegetation found on the savannah. When they are born, their intestines do not contain these bacteria. Without them, these elephants would be unable to get any nutritional value from plants
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Sadly enough I believe that most cockroaches are flesh eating, even the most common of house invaders.  There was a case of a woman who had multiple roach feeding sites found on her body during the autopsy.  Also roaches have been found in peoples ears and also they bite on the ear drum. I know this is all pretty nasty but sometimes the truth is.
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If by "red worms" you mean earthworms of the species Eisenia foetida (commonly used for composting), they mostly eat any plant or animal particulate matter that is small enough to enter their mouths; other species (including another common earthworm of genus Lumbricus) can use their sucker-like mouth to ingest relatively large pieces of food. They also ingest live microorganisms along with the detritus. \nEarthworms are part of the soil mesofauna, and usually they don't feed on whole plant parts (such as leaves) but rather on small pieces of particulate matter that have already been generated by other animals of the macro- and mesofauna, especially plant residues (coffee grounds and tea leaves included). They ingest these along with soil inorganic particles (that's why they are important for mixing and carrying organic matter into deeper soil layers).