- worm-eating bird.
Animals feeding only on dead wood are
called sapro-
xylophagous or saproxylic. Most such
animals are arthropods,
primarily insects of...
- A wood-decay or
xylophagous fungus is any
species of
fungus that
digests moist wood,
causing it to rot. Some
species of wood-decay
fungi attack dead wood...
-
collectively grouped into the "Protocoleoptera" are
thought to have been
xylophagous (wood eating) and wood boring.
Fossils from this time have been found...
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beetles whose larval or
adult forms eat and
destroy wood (i.e., are
xylophagous). In the
woodworking industry,
larval stages of some are
sometimes referred...
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fungi benefit their hosts.
Fungi growing in dead wood are
essential for
xylophagous insects (e.g.
woodboring beetles). They
deliver nutrients needed by xylophages...
- only on dead wood is
called sapro-xylophagy and
those animals, sapro-
xylophagous.
Detritivores play an
important role as
recyclers in the ecosystem's...
- "Fungal
Transformation of Tree
Stumps into a
Suitable Resource for
Xylophagous Beetles via
Changes in
Elemental Ratios". Insects. 7 (2): 13. doi:10...
- only on dead wood is
called sapro-xylophagy and
those animals, sapro-
xylophagous. In food webs,
saprophages generally play the
roles of decomposers. There...
- wood Gr**** ξύλον (xúlon) metaxylem, protoxylem, xylem, xylene, xylitol, xylocarp, Xylocarpus, xyloid,
xylophagous, xylophobia, xylophone, xylostroma...
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fungus or
bacterial decomposition. rot
including dry rot.
infestation of
xylophagous pest
organisms such as (very
common in Europe) the
Ptinidae family, particularly...
