Insects That Live On The Rainforest Floor

Its legs could stretch out to cover a dinner plate.

Insects that live on the rainforest floor.

Further insect eating vertebrates are mice shrews bats salamanders frogs toads and lizards. Best known of forest snakes are the giant constrictors pythons of the old world and australasia and boas of new world but many of these are arboreal aquatic or relatively small. Cassowary s live in the dense foliage of rainforests in new zealand and australia eating fruits leaves and insects. Both its fame and its name are due to its extremely painful sting.

Goliath tarantula hercules beetle this beetle is one of the biggest insects on earth. One example of this which sounds like something straight out of a kids movie is the life cycle of the terentia hairstreak butterfly. There also are mammalian herbivores in the rainforest that inhabit the rainforest floors. The bullet ant is one of the most famous of all insects that live in rainforests.

At the same time many insects also live as predators or parasites off other insects. It lives in deep burrows on the forest floor. They redistribute seeds in their feces. This tarantula is the heaviest and largest spider in the world.

For example the okapi in africa resembles a striped deer. The most abundant vertebrate predators of the forest floor are reptiles namely snakes and lizards. These can play a major role in regulating outbreaks of pest insects. It is said that the pain from the sting of a bullet ant is comparable to that of being shot.

Typical insect feeders amongst birds are woodpeckers tits warblers sparrows and cuckoos. Rainforest tribes use bullet ants in initiation ceremonies. Some such as the web spinner produce silk to construct tunnels in which to live.