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There are various types of nematodes that can survive in the ground, food, and in people. Most nematodes are less than 1 mm long and are almost invisible to the human eye; they are responsible for the 15% loss to crops per year world-wide. Nematodes are known as round worms and live off of many different things. Most plant feeding nematodes live in the soil and feed on plant roots, decreasing the plant’s intake of water and nutrients, and lowering their tolerance to other stresses like a drought. Herbivores are the plant parasites, their mouths are needlelike stylet that are used to cut through cells while they are eating it. Ectoparasites can stay in the soil and eat at the roots exterior. Endoparasites go through the roots and can live and survive within it. (Featured Creatures) Bacterivores are free living nematodes that only eat bacteria. They are valuable in the decomposition of matter. They include many members ofRhabditida bacterivore, Bacterivores mouth or stoma is a hollow tube like opening.