Pond Herbivores
Ponds are teeming with both animal and plant life.
Pond herbivores. Beaver midge larva wood duck stickleback pond snail tadpole. Many insects live near the surface of the pond. The second trophic level is characterized by presence of herbivores such as insects crustaceans and invertebrates inhabiting the pond.
Sunlight provides energy for plants to grow. Algae duckweed elodea cattails water lily. A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants.
Herbivores only feed on plant life. The plants provide food for many creatures. Are pond snails herbivores.
The catfish is the carnivore of the ecosystem and feed on other fish. The omnivore of the ecosystem are turtles because they eat algae and fish such as minnows. All herbivores have unique physical features that adapted to feeding and digesting fibrous plant matter.
Carnivores are meat eaters. Below is a list of some of the animals that are considered to be herbivores. Some animals live in the water fish crayfish tadpoles etc some live above the water ducks insects etc and others live in the area surrounding the pond raccoons earthworms etc.
The third and the topmost trophic level comprises the carnivores especially the fish species which can feed on both plants and the herbivores of the first trophic level and second trophic level respectively. Herbivores are primary consumers and can include mammals reptiles insects and birds. Draw four things you would see in a pond.
One of the herbivores of the ecosystem are minnows they feed on the algae in the pond.
