The shrimp is mainly a detritus feeder and is constantly stirring up the substrate.
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This plant colonisation was followed by plant and detritus feeders such as primitive insects and millipedes.
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For example, mud flats are inhabited by many univalves which are detritus feeders, such as moon shells.
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They have to attach themselves to the surfaces, become predominantly detritus feeders and have a mechanism for obtaining maximum oxygen supply.
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The organisms that produced the traces in the sediments were all worm-like sediment feeders or detritus feeders ( Detritivore ).
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It has been described as s detritus feeder with a perefernce for animal remains and has been observed feeding on tadpoles and fish fry.
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Unlike " Toxorhynchites " mosquitoes, detritus feeder mosquitoe female larvae rely on blood meals to produce eggs more plentifully than a diet of nectar would permit.
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A characteristic type of food chain called the detritus cycle takes place involving detritus feeders ( detritivores ), detritus and the micro-organisms that multiply on it.
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They are primarily herbivores and detritus feeders living deep in the soil, under stones, in decaying wood, and in other moist places where they feed on the root hairs and rootlets and can sometimes cause crop failure.
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When these detritus feeders take in detritus with micro-organisms multiplying on it, they mainly break down and absorb the micro-organisms, which are rich in proteins, and excrete the detritus, which is mostly complex carbohydrates, having hardly broken it down at all.
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