Xylophagy
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Xylophagy is a term used in
sapro
-xylophagous or saproxylic.
Xylophagous insects
Most such animals are
Many xylophagous insects have
fungi that are growing amidst the wood fibers. Such insects often carry the spores of the fungi in special structures on their bodies (called "mycangia"), and infect the host tree themselves when they are laying their eggs.[1]
Examples of wood-eating animals
- African forest elephants
- Bark beetles
- Beavers
- Cossidae moths
- Cryptocercus punctulatus, the brown-hooded cockroach
- Dioryctria sylvestrella, the maritime pine borer, a snout moth in the Pyralidae family
- Gribbles
- Horntails
- Panaque (catfish)
- Panesthia cribrata, the Australian wood cockroach
- Sesiidae moths
- Shipworms
- Termites
- Wood-boring beetles
- Woodlice
- Amphipods[2]
- Squat lobster[3]