Insectivore
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An insectivore is an animal or insect that eats mostly insects for food. An Anteater is an animal that eats ants. Bears eat insects too sometimes. A favorite insect food for bears is grubs. A grub looks like a little worm, but is really a young insect. Worms are not insects.
There are even some plants that eat insects. One plant that is an insectivore is called a Venus fly-trap.
Some people also eat insects for food. In some places, it is not unusual for people to eat insects. In other places, people might think that insects are not for food.
To eat insects for food is not very easy because it takes many insects to make enough food for an insect-eating animal. Anteaters eat hundreds of ants every day.
Different animals also eat different food. In the same way that an insectivore is an animal that eats mostly insects for food, there are other words for animals that eat other food.
A herbivore is an animal that eats mostly plants. (A herb is a plant.) Most herbivores cannot get food from eating meat.
A carnivore is an animal that mostly eats meat from other animals. (in Spanish "carne" is a word that means meat.) A carnivore might eat meat from an animal that it has killed. A carnivore might eat meat from an animal that another animal has killed. Some carnivores sometimes eat meat from an animal that is still alive.
An animal that eats garbage, or dead animals or other food left from another animal is called a detritivore because "detritus" means garbage.
If an animal can get food from animal meat or plants or fruit or insects it is called an omnivore (because "omni" means all), so an omnivore can eat almost any kind of food that any other animal or insect can. People are omnivores.
