Based on the text for roaches eating: 1.Identify the niche of the pest: carnivore; herbivore; omnivore; or parasite? Use DIRECT EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT to support your claim. Use REASONING to support your claim. Use this sentence starter: The niche of the pest is (carnivore; herbivore; omnivore; parasite) because in the text it states__. This means _.

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Based on the text for roaches eating: 1.Identify the niche of the pest: carnivore; herbivore; omnivore; or parasite? Use DIRECT EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT to support your claim. Use REASONING to support your claim. Use this sentence starter: The niche of the pest is (carnivore; herbivore; omnivore; parasite) because in the text it states__. This means _.
Roaches Eating
of plants to get sugar,
es and females to live. the American cockroach and the brown banded cockroach. These species
Three of the most common roaches in the U.S. are the German cockroach,
eat just about anything, whether it's other insects, fruits and vegetables, or
e eggs, females need
a blood can come from garbage. But roaches are most attracted to starches, sweets, greasy food
and meat products.
Cockroaches are omnivores. Although they can survive several months
es hibernate over the without food, roaches will eat anything that has nutritional value. They are
es. To survive without
especially attracted to starch, sugar, grease, meat and cheese. Decaying
p eat extra sugars to food items are particularly delicious for a hungry roach in search of his next
eed again until spring. meal. These household pests are often attracted to very strong smells, such
bite and instead seek
as garbage or compost, but can quickly find small crumbs or a drop of
covery explains how it
that code for digesting
sugar and retaining fat | In times of an organic food shortage, cockroaches will eat household items,
grease.
such as book bindings, cardboard, toothpaste, leather, glue, paper scraps,
solid soaps, starch-based paints and wallpaper, dried human skin flakes
r mouthpiece, that is | and nylon clothing. These insects have a digestive tract with a variety of
extracting blood. After | protozoa and bacteria that allows them to feast on non-food items.
nd injects saliva. The
ing it easier for her to | When in the absence of humans, cockroaches will eat plants, other insects,
tim less apt to notice decaying matter, animal feces, dead trees and dead bodies. They will
o she can insert the occasionally resort to cannibalism, eating their own young, other roaches or
what make mosquito | the bodies of their deceased comrades.
Give thanks for centipedes, ants, frogs, lizards, snakes, and even
od from one victim to | scorpions. These predators love nothing more than catching and eating
saliva.
roaches. Mice treat roaches like a chocolate bunny; they bite off the head,
work their way down through the body, and discard the tough legs and
wings.
Transcribed Image Text:Roaches Eating of plants to get sugar, es and females to live. the American cockroach and the brown banded cockroach. These species Three of the most common roaches in the U.S. are the German cockroach, eat just about anything, whether it's other insects, fruits and vegetables, or e eggs, females need a blood can come from garbage. But roaches are most attracted to starches, sweets, greasy food and meat products. Cockroaches are omnivores. Although they can survive several months es hibernate over the without food, roaches will eat anything that has nutritional value. They are es. To survive without especially attracted to starch, sugar, grease, meat and cheese. Decaying p eat extra sugars to food items are particularly delicious for a hungry roach in search of his next eed again until spring. meal. These household pests are often attracted to very strong smells, such bite and instead seek as garbage or compost, but can quickly find small crumbs or a drop of covery explains how it that code for digesting sugar and retaining fat | In times of an organic food shortage, cockroaches will eat household items, grease. such as book bindings, cardboard, toothpaste, leather, glue, paper scraps, solid soaps, starch-based paints and wallpaper, dried human skin flakes r mouthpiece, that is | and nylon clothing. These insects have a digestive tract with a variety of extracting blood. After | protozoa and bacteria that allows them to feast on non-food items. nd injects saliva. The ing it easier for her to | When in the absence of humans, cockroaches will eat plants, other insects, tim less apt to notice decaying matter, animal feces, dead trees and dead bodies. They will o she can insert the occasionally resort to cannibalism, eating their own young, other roaches or what make mosquito | the bodies of their deceased comrades. Give thanks for centipedes, ants, frogs, lizards, snakes, and even od from one victim to | scorpions. These predators love nothing more than catching and eating saliva. roaches. Mice treat roaches like a chocolate bunny; they bite off the head, work their way down through the body, and discard the tough legs and wings.
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