0 a type of fertilizer (= substance that makes plants grow) made from leaves that fall from trees in the autumn -- 腐叶土
About 500 species in four families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mould.
The larvae overwinter wherever they have been feeding, which may be in compost, manure, leaf mould, or rotting wood.
They need moist surroundings and thus they live buried under leaf mould and logs.
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.
