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fecal material and/or wood shavings produced by insects.

frass (Wikipedia)

Frass refers loosely to the more or less solid excreta of insects, and to certain other related matter.

Bedstraw hawk-moth caterpillar leaving the frass behind
Typical sculpting of a frass pellet of a large caterpillar
A thistle tortoise beetle larva carrying a mass of its own frass as a repugnatorial defence.
This Lepidoptera larvae disposes of its frass that might attract predators or parasites.
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