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An animal that treats bugs as dinner instead of pests, outsourcing pest control to evolution.
means An organism, typically an animal, that feeds mainly or exclusively on insects.
from Built from Latin parts: insectum ('insect,' literally 'cut into,' from secare, 'to cut,' describing the segmented bodies of bugs) plus vorare, 'to devour,' the same root that gives us 'voracious' and 'carnivore.' So the word is literally 'insect-devourer' — a tidy 19th-century scientific coinage from older Latin bones.
- weight class
- hedgehogs and anteaters both qualify, wildly different sizes
- bat math
- one bat can eat 1000+ mosquitoes per hour
- plant twist
- venus flytraps are basically insectivores with no legs
- not a diet fad
- obligate ones die without insect protein, no cheat days