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They are relatives of spiders, have eight legs, and even spin webs. Mites are invertebrates, but they are not insects. #6 Mites Mites feed on the underside of the blade of grass, making it even harder to see them.
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When the grass produces seeds, the geese eat that as well. That way they eat not just the blades and stems but the roots. Like the geometric tortoise, they grab the blade of grass in their beak and pull it up.
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They don’t restrict themselves to grasses but do graze, especially during the warmer months.
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This large goose, familiar to most people through its brown body and its black neck and head with the white cheek patches that meet under the throat, are native to North America. #7 Canada Goose The Canada goose eats the blade, stem, and roots of the grass. They graze upon bluegrass, rice cutgrass, bent grass, timothy, orchard grass, love grass and purple top. The caterpillars themselves are not showy, with prominent heads and simple green or brown bodies. While other moths and butterfly caterpillars chow down on such fancy plants as viburnum, milkweed, blueberry, blackberry, sassafras, witch hazel and wild and domesticated crucifers, the caterpillars of these plain little butterflies with their clubbed antennae eat grasses. The tortoise eats by grabbing the plant with its mouth and simply ripping it out of the ground, so it avoids tough plants that are hard to dig up. Found in a shrubby habitat called the renosterveld, this tortoise likes to restrict itself to such grasses as red oat grass, Bermuda grass, Briza maxima and Pentaschistis curvifolia which is also native to the Cape Province. Indeed, the starry pattern of its domed shell probably evolved to camouflage it as it moves through the grasses it eats for food. This tortoise, endemic to South Africa’s Cape Province, is a grass specialist. #9 Geometric Tortoise It is thought that the Geometric tortoise’s shell evolved to camouflage it as it eats. Other grasshoppers will chew the grass down to the crown. Some grasshoppers, such as the green-striped, like to nibble the edge of the blade about halfway up, chew through the leaf, hold on to the bit that’s been cut off, and use their feet to deliver it to their mandibles. They are so partial to grass that swarms of them can devastate those types of grasses that humans eat such as corn, wheat, and oats. Of course, these insects, with their famously powerful back legs, are partial to grasses, including quackgrass, junegrass, Johnsongrass, and even the Kentucky bluegrass of lawns. #10 Grasshoppers Grasshoppers are partial to grasses like quackgrass and junegrass. Continue reading to learn about 10 animals that eat grass. Some can eat mostly grass and remain healthy, while others sometimes need to supplement their diet with fruit, seeds, leaves, or bark. The animals listed here have systems that can break down grass and thus benefit from its nutrients. Yet grass is surprisingly rich in protein, carbohydrates, minerals such as iron, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin C, and vitamin E. Humans lack this enzyme, so grass just goes straight through the digestive system without contributing a thing. Why is this? Because animals that eat grass have microorganisms in their gut that produce enough of an enzyme called cellulase, which breaks down cellulose in grass. The type of grass that’s found in pastures and isn’t corn, wheat, or other types of cereals is not the most nutritious of foods for humans, but for other animals, it is just the thing. Discover the Biggest Shark Ever Caught Off…