Diet/Feeding Nematodes feed on organic matter, both dead and alive such as small animals including other worms, or on diatoms, algae, fungi and bacteria. Some eat plants by piercing the stem or root and sucking out the contents.
How do roundworms feed and digest?
Roundworms have tube digestive systems, meaning ingested food travels a single route. It enters through the mouth, is ground down in the pharynx, is digested in the gut, and is eliminated from the anus. The mouth is on one end of the body and the anus is on the opposite end.
Do roundworms eat your food?
The Food Chain They are eaten but not digested, or not consumed at all.
How do nematodes gather food?
Fungal-feeders feed by puncturing the cell wall of fungi and sucking out the internal contents. Predatory nematodes eat all types of nematodes and protozoa. They eat smaller organisms whole, or attach themselves to the cuticle of larger nematodes, scraping away until the prey's internal body parts can be extracted.
What do roundworms eat in the human body?
They feed off the blood of the infected person, which can cause anemia. Children are especially vulnerable to this kind of infection. These roundworms infect about 25% of the world's population.
