answersLogoWhite

0

What animals eat termites?

Updated: 8/10/2023
User Avatar

Wiki User

10y ago

Best Answer

Lizards' diets range from meat to insects to flowers to leafy greens to eggs, etc. However, most lizards are rather specialized in diet. In order to correctly and completely answer your question, we'd need specificity on which type of lizard we are talking about.

Further information on specific lizard species that eat termites:

Geckos are known to feed on termites, as do skinks and legless lizards. Lizards in the dragon family, such as frill-necked lizards and bearded dragons, also eat termites.

User Avatar

Wiki User

10y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

10y ago

Ants are the greatest predators of termites, often raiding termite nests to eat their young. Spiders and some types of bugs also eat termites.

Ant-eating creatures, such as anteaters, aardvarks, aardwolf, many species of baboon and primates and the Australian short-beaked echidna (sometimes nicknamed the spiny anteater) and the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea all eat termites.

The numbat, a small marsupial of western Australia, feeds almost exclusively on termites, preferring them over ants, like the echidna. Other marsupials which eat termites (among other foods) include the bilby, marsupial mole and even the ringtail possum.

Most species of birds eat termites, as do smaller species of lizards, such as geckos, skinks, frill-necked lizards and legless lizards, and snakes.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What animals eat termites?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp