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Biology, 28.06.2020 01:01 megkate

You discover a new species of aquatic mite. To describe its ecological function in the food web, you study its entire life cycle. The life cycle begins as a pregnant mother lays her eggs inside a tadpole in a pond. As the eggs hatch and the larvae mature, they slowly eat the tadpole from the inside out. After killing their host, the larvae swim out into the water and land on the surface of an aquatic insect, where they latch on and inject a proboscis into the insect host and extract nutrients from the insect's body. As the insect host matures, it flies to a new pond. When the insect lands on vegetation in a new pond, the juvenile mites fall off and land in the water, where they consume dead plant matter until they reach adulthood. Once they have matured into adults, the mites begin consuming tiny aquatic insects until they are large and healthy enough to mate, at which point the cycle begins anew. Describe the changing ecological role of this mite species as it goes from birth through reproduction.

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