Ephemeral Sapworm: Difference between revisions

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|size=1 cm long

|support=Exoskeleton (Chitin)

|diet=Sapivore: [[~~Maulwarts~~]] (nectar, sap), [[~~Razorbarks~~]] (sap)

|diet=Sapivore: [[Maulwart]] (nectar, sap), [[Razorbark]] (sap)

|respiration=Semi-Active (Unidirectional Tracheae)

|thermoregulation=Heterotherm (Basking, Heat from Muscle Activity)

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Like Sapworms in general, Ephemeral Sapworms need little water. They get most of what they need from a diet of sap, but occasionally suck up dew that has accumulated in the fissures of its host's bark.

Ephemeral Sapworms taste conspicuously different from other sapworms, due to accumulating the taste of the coffee-flavored nectar that is most of their diet. Most predators find them less appealing to eat than their relatives, and the smaller ones more easily poisoned by them may leave them half-eaten or let them go. Some of the smaller [[Silkruggs|Silkrugg]] species with better vision just let them go, without even a bite, once they’re close enough to distinguish them from their similar-looking relatives, [[Nectarworms]]. Ephemeral Sapworms are nonetheless commonly eaten, especially by large fauna that need to eat many Ephemeral Sapworms at once to suffer ill effect. Egg-specialist [[Minikruggs]] are a major threat to their eggs, and one species isn’t deterred at all by the coffee-like taste of the eggs.

Ephemeral Sapworms taste conspicuously different from other sapworms, due to accumulating the taste of the coffee-flavored nectar that is most of their diet. Most predators find them less appealing to eat than their relatives, and the smaller ones more easily poisoned by them may leave them half-eaten or let them go. Some of the smaller [[Silkruggs|Silkrugg]] species with better vision just let them go, without even a bite, once they’re close enough to distinguish them from their similar-looking relatives, [[Nectarworm|Nectarworms]]. Ephemeral Sapworms are nonetheless commonly eaten, especially by large fauna that need to eat many Ephemeral Sapworms at once to suffer ill effect. Egg-specialist [[Minikruggs]] are a major threat to their eggs, and one species isn’t deterred at all by the coffee-like taste of the eggs.

Although they look superficially similar to Nectarworms, they're actually less related than lions and tigers are to each other, and utterly incapable of hybridizing. Its mostly unremarkable ancestor started on a path towards specializing in the spore chambers of the Razorbark, Maulwarts' ancestor, several million years before Nectarworms' appearance, and Nectarworms genetically diverged still further from blackflora-specialist sapworms. Their mouthparts, reproductive habits and physiology, diets, life histories, and even predators of their eggs and young vary significantly.

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 |size=1 cm long
 |support=Exoskeleton (Chitin)
-|diet=Sapivore: [[Maulwarts]] (nectar, sap), [[Razorbarks]] (sap)
+|diet=Sapivore: [[Maulwart]] (nectar, sap), [[Razorbark]] (sap)
 |respiration=Semi-Active (Unidirectional Tracheae)
 |thermoregulation=Heterotherm (Basking, Heat from Muscle Activity)
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 Like Sapworms in general, Ephemeral Sapworms need little water. They get most of what they need from a diet of sap, but occasionally suck up dew that has accumulated in the fissures of its host's bark.
-Ephemeral Sapworms taste conspicuously different from other sapworms, due to accumulating the taste of the coffee-flavored nectar that is most of their diet. Most predators find them less appealing to eat than their relatives, and the smaller ones more easily poisoned by them may leave them half-eaten or let them go. Some of the smaller [[Silkruggs|Silkrugg]] species with better vision just let them go, without even a bite, once they’re close enough to distinguish them from their similar-looking relatives, [[Nectarworms]]. Ephemeral Sapworms are nonetheless commonly eaten, especially by large fauna that need to eat many Ephemeral Sapworms at once to suffer ill effect. Egg-specialist [[Minikruggs]] are a major threat to their eggs, and one species isn’t deterred at all by the coffee-like taste of the eggs.
+Ephemeral Sapworms taste conspicuously different from other sapworms, due to accumulating the taste of the coffee-flavored nectar that is most of their diet. Most predators find them less appealing to eat than their relatives, and the smaller ones more easily poisoned by them may leave them half-eaten or let them go. Some of the smaller [[Silkruggs|Silkrugg]] species with better vision just let them go, without even a bite, once they’re close enough to distinguish them from their similar-looking relatives, [[Nectarworm|Nectarworms]]. Ephemeral Sapworms are nonetheless commonly eaten, especially by large fauna that need to eat many Ephemeral Sapworms at once to suffer ill effect. Egg-specialist [[Minikruggs]] are a major threat to their eggs, and one species isn’t deterred at all by the coffee-like taste of the eggs.
 Although they look superficially similar to Nectarworms, they're actually less related than lions and tigers are to each other, and utterly incapable of hybridizing. Its mostly unremarkable ancestor started on a path towards specializing in the spore chambers of the Razorbark, Maulwarts' ancestor, several million years before Nectarworms' appearance, and Nectarworms genetically diverged still further from blackflora-specialist sapworms. Their mouthparts, reproductive habits and physiology, diets, life histories, and even predators of their eggs and young vary significantly.

Ephemeral Sapworm: Difference between revisions

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