Animals In The Desert That Eat Cactus

The collared peccary a type of hog eats the prickly pear cactus.

Animals in the desert that eat cactus. The collared peccary a type of hog eats the prickly pear cactus. The Cactus Wren is found in arid deserts of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Many small animals such as bats and mice eat cactus in the dessert.

Insects such as bees and butterflies drink the nectar of the cactus flower. The collared peccary a type of hog eats the prickly pear cactus. These are big teeth marks Bamberg.

North Scottsdale resident Jim Bamberg recently came across the critter outside his home. Usually the wrens will build nests in the prickly spines of a cactus such as a cholla see picture at right. During drought animals will often go for the most common type of cactus prickly pear.

Jackrabbits eat Prickly Pear cactus and do so near the base where there are no large spines. The herbivorous White-winged Doves abundant across much of the desert brushlands eat the seeds of the ephemeral plans and the fruits of prickly pear cacti. The fruit is eaten by jackrabbits peccaries deer squirrels birds iguanas tortoises and beetles.

These insectivores then fall prey to the most dangerous carnivores in the desert the snakes. Insects such as bees and butterflies drink the nectar of the cactus flower. Pack rats eat Prickly Pear as well and also avoid large spines eating around them.

Scorpions and spiders also consume insects. What animals eat cacti in the desert and how do they eat it. Jackrabbits the ones with the large ears eat prickly pear particularly at the base of the plant where there are few or no spines.