nature's recyclers chapter 2 for ell (lesson 3) guided reading
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What cleans
up nature’s waste?
Today you will be a naturalist. A naturalist is a scientist who studies plants and animals in nature. You
will take a walk through the
forest and look for what cleans
up nature’s waste.
Flies lay their eggs in the
carrion (dead flesh) and the babies, which
are called larvae,
(maggots) are born and get
lots of nutrients from
the dead animal!
Walking through the
forest we spot a carrion
beetle laying her eggs
inside a rat.
Walking a little further
we see carrion beetle babies
(larvae) eating a different
dead animal.
Another name for
decomposers is
scavengers. Scavengers eat plants
and animals they did not
kill themselves.
Some examples
of scavenger
s are worms, beetles,
flies, ants, hermit
crabs and fungus.
We are lucky that
some organisms
LOVE dung!!!
Fungi are also decomposers.
Some scavengers
are invertebrates
.
Some scavengers
are vertebrates.
It’s a good thing we have
so many friends to
take care of nature’s waste!
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