The bamboo worm is phytophagous, mainly feeding on various trees and weeds.

The bamboo worm mostly feeds on the leaves of shrubs and trees, harming forests, and has not been seen living on bamboo to feed on bamboo leaves. They are often used as one of the typical representative animals of mimicry due to their green or yellowish-brown body color and body shape that closely resembles their habitat.

Inactive during the day, the body color and size are protective. Seek to feed on leaves at night. Development is gradual. Bamboo worms can often reproduce as solitary females, males are often fewer, and unfertilized eggs tend to develop into females. When injured, the feet of the larvae can fall off by themselves and can be regenerated. High humidity, low temperature, dark light can make the body color dark, on the contrary, the body color can become light. Day and night body color is different, become rhythmic body color change.

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Bamboo Worms: The food consumption of bamboo worms is very low. p>The food quantity of the bamboo worm:

The bamboo worm is mostly omnivorous, and the feeding time is also longer, and with the increase of the age of the worm, the amount of individual leaf-eating increases, so the old age of the worm and the adult period is the main harmful period. Feeding time can be seen during the day and night, but most of them feed and move in the evening. In the old age, the average daily rate of increase in food intake of males is greater than that of females, which is consistent with the early development of males and the short calendar period.

But after the adult stage, females are larger than males, and with their reproductive needs, they feed more than males. The total amount of leaf-feeding is larger for females than for males. For example, with the increase of the age of anopheles, the amount of feeding increased significantly, 4.41% of the total amount of feeding of the 1~4 age, 30.83% of the 5~6(7) age, and 64.65% of the adult stage, so the 5~6(7) age of wakame and the adult stage is the main period of damage.

While 1 female of Heterocercaillus huaji feeds on about 132.7 leaves in her lifetime, the male feeds on a relatively small amount of leaves and eats an average of about 47.1 leaves in his lifetime, and the female feeds significantly more than the male, which is confirmed again in the study of the feeding amount of the proposed Heterocercaillus huaji and the Pingli short-anal rod bamboo worms by comparing the feeding amount of the male and the female.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Dictyostelium

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