Food Web Organisms of Southeast
Tennessee
Use the following organisms to illustrate and describe your food web. Draw and
label each organism, draw each arrow in the correct direction, and label each
organism as either a producer or the type of consumer that it is.
Red-tailed hawk (eats small rodents, small birds)
Rabbit (eats grass, leafy weeds)
Squirrel (eats nuts, seeds, conifer cones, fruits, fungi, insects, eggs, small birds,
young snakes and smaller rodents)
Fox (eats invertebrates and small mammals, reptiles (such as snakes), amphibians,
scorpions, grasses, berries, fruit, fish, birds, eggs, dung beetles, insects and all
other kinds of small animals)
Finch (eats seeds, sometimes berries)
Common house fly (eats liquids, semi-liquids)
Frog (eats invertebrates, including arthropods, worms, snails, slugs, other frogs,
small mammals, and fish)
Garden spider (eats small vertebrates, such as geckos and green anoles, as well as
insects)
Mockingbird (eats insects such as bees, earthworms, berries, fruits, seeds, and
seldom, lizards) Note: When a predator is persistent, mockingbirds that are
summoned by distinct calls from neighboring territories may join the attack. Other
birds may gather to watch as the mockingbirds harass the intruder. In addition to
harassing domestic cats and dogs they consider a threat, it is not unheard of for
mockingbirds to target humans. The birds are absolutely unafraid and will attack
much larger birds, even hawks.
Food Web Organisms of Southeast Tennessee
Field mouse (eats grasses, sedges, forbs, insects and snails)
Chipmunk (eats seeds, nuts, fruits, buds, grass, shoots, fungi, insects, small frogs,
worms, and bird eggs)
Grasshopper (eats grasses, leaves and cereal crops)
Earthworm (eats plant leaves)
Oak (producer)
Hickory (producer)
Wild cherry (producer)
Blackberry (producer)
Grass (producer)
Ant (eats fungi, dead insects, honeydew from aphids)
Bee (eats nectar from plants converted into honey)
Cardinal (eats seeds, insects and fruit)