Detrivores are bacteria, plants, fungi or earthworm?

Question

Detrivores are bacteria, plants, fungi or earthworm?

Answer 1

Detritivores are also called 'detritus feeders' or 'saprophytes/saprophages'. From the name, you can already conclude that they are heterotrophs by consuming organic matter (detritus) or by decomposing.

Bacteria, plants, fungi and earthworm are examples of detritivores

Answer 2

A detrivore is an organism that feeds on large bits of dead and decaying organic matter. What detrivores leave behind is used by decomposers. So earthworm is a detrivore. Bacteria and fungi are decomposers. Plants are autotrophs.

Answer 3

Some worms are detrivores.  Remember, a detrivore is an organism that lives/feeds on organic waste (f***s).  In doing so, they prepare the waste for decomposition (which is performed by bacteria and fungi).  By digesting wastes even more, detrivores increase the surface area of the waste which prepares the wastes for decomposition.  

Plants are autotrophs (auto means "self", troph refers to food or nutrition).  

Examples of detrivores include: millipedes, woodlice, dung flies, many terrestrial worms and burying beetles.

Answer 4

An organism that feeds on detritus or organic waste.  The earthworm is the inly one in  the group that fits this description.  By consuming dead organic matter they speed up decomposition by increasing the surface area available to  bacteria. Examples of detrivores include millipedes, woodlice, dung flies, many terrestrial worms and burying beetles.