👉 Heptastrophic is a term used in ecology to describe an organism that feeds on other organisms. It refers to an animal that consumes more than one type of plant or animal at once, consuming both leaves and flowers from those plants. The term was coined by the English ecologist Charles Darwin in his book "On the Origin of Species." In this work, he described how certain animals feed on the seeds of other species. For example, the weevil (Lepidoptera) feeds
