0 a type of fertilizer (= substance that makes plants grow) made from leaves that fall from trees in the autumn --
Found living on decaying organic material, such as old tree stumps, logs, leaf mould, compost heaps, and other organic debris in fields, woods, and along the roadsides.
They need moist surroundings and thus they live buried under leaf mould and logs.
The larvae overwinter wherever they have been feeding, which may be in compost, manure, leaf mould, or rotting wood.
About 500 species in four families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mould.
