Minibeasts in the food chain
Minibeasts in the food chain: simple garden food chains. A caterpillar eats a leaf, a bird eats the caterpillar. The idea that minibeasts are food for other animals, and that minibeasts eat things too.
What a learner can do afterwards
- Describe a simple food chain such as leaf → caterpillar → bird
- Explain that minibeasts eat plants or other tiny creatures and are eaten by bigger animals
- Give an example of what a specific minibeast eats, such as caterpillars eating leaves or ladybirds eating aphids
1 · Read
Every living thing needs food to grow. Minibeasts eat plants or tiny creatures. Then bigger animals eat the minibeasts. This chain of eating is called a food chain.
A ladybird eats tiny aphids on a leaf. A bird might eat the ladybird next. Every minibeast has its place in the chain.
Try this: think what a minibeast eats. Then think what might eat that minibeast.
In a food chain, each thing gives food to the next.
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Where this leads
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