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Insects

There are thousands of different
types of insect living in forests,
and they all play an important

role. Insects help many trees
and other forest plants make

seeds, which can grow into new
plants. They also eat dead trees,
releasing the nutrients from the

wood back into the soil.

Helping plants make seeds

Bees and other insects help plants make seeds.
They do this by picking up pollen grains when
they come to feed on nectar, which is a sweet
A sparrow snacks on an ant.
liquid made by flowers. The insects then
spread the pollen to other flowers, which
Eat or be eaten use it to make seeds.

Insects are important to the survival of
the forest and the animals that live there. Flower
They form parts of many food chains. Lots Pollen sticks beetle
of insects are prey that are eaten by other to a butterfly’s
animals. But some insects are predators body.
and excellent hunters. The praying mantis,
for example, is an expert at catching
other insects and spiders.
Banded orange Wasp
tiger butterfly

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