Foods and Feeding Biology
Foods and Feeding Biology
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食品和喂养生物学
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2011
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T. New
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几乎所有的有机物质都是一种或多种昆虫的食物，因此昆虫在任何生物小区中涉及物质和能量途径的生态过程中的集体作用是巨大的。很少有有机材料能完全逃脱昆虫的注意-甚至考拉和一些负鼠的粪便也能支持毛毛虫在它们体内的发育，而其他昆虫则在一片叶子或种子，或其他活的或死的昆虫个体，其他动物或植物中完成发育。单个昆虫吃的东西不多，但将这种情况放大到某些昆虫种群中的数千甚至数百万个个体，会极大地改变人们对其影响的看法。
Almost any organic material is food for one or more kinds of insect, so that the collective roles of insects in ecological processes involving material and energy pathways in any biotope are enormous. Few organic materials escape insect attention entirely – even the individual droppings of koalas and some possums can support development of caterpillars feeding inside them, whilst other insects complete development inside a single leaf or seed, or other living or dead insect individual, other animal or plant. An individual insect does not eat much, but amplifying this to the thousands, even millions, of individuals in some insect populations dramatically changes perceptions of their impacts.