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Feeding on dead trees Reusing nutrients
When a tree dies, many insects use it as When an insect, such as a stag beetle, eats
food. Bark beetles drill holes into the tree some wood, it breaks it down in its gut. Some
and lay eggs there. Their young then eat of the nutrients from the wood help the insect
the bark and wood. The holes let other grow, but other nutrients are passed out of
insects get inside the tree and feed there, the insect’s body in its waste. This becomes
too. Fungi also live off dead wood. part of the soil that plants can use.
Wood wasp Stag
Timber worm beetle
beetle Jewel
beetle
The wood wasp’s Jewel beetles
needle is used for lay their eggs in
laying eggs. burned trees.
Long-horned Click
beetle beetle
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