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Some of the hardest working animals are often overlooked due to their size, but we're here to show them the proper appreciation! Please join us in learning all about our amazing detritivores!

This live-action video program is about the term "animal essential functions". The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term "animal essential functions" through use of video...

Compost Worms (Eisenia venata). Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

T/L yellow disc fungi and dung fungi (Coprinus sp.) growing on cow dung, CU, UK

Compost Worm (Eisenia venata). Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

Compost Worms (Eisenia venata). Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

Earthworm living in Horse manure, The Compost Worm Eisenia venata. Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

Compost Worms (Eisenia venata). Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

Compost Worm (Eisenia venata). Usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soils and manure heaps.

T/L dung fungi (Pilobolus sp.) on cow dung take 4, UK

T/L dung fungi (Pilobolus sp.) on cow dung take 2, UK

T/L dung fungi (Pilobolus sp.) on cow dung take 3, UK

T/L various detritivores: dung fungi (Coprinus sp.) ink caps, yellow disc fungi, flies and slug on cow dung, UK

T/L dung fungi (Pilobolus sp.) on cow dung take 1, UK

T/L yellow disc fungi and multitude of decomposers on cow dung, CU, UK

T/L Pilobolus dung fungi on cow dung moving to sun take 3, UK

T/L dung fungi (Pilobolus sp.) on cow dung take 5, UK

T/L brownish dung fungi (Coprinus sp.) ink cap growing from cow dung, UK, BCU

T/L Earthstar (family Geastraceae) fungus opening, take 1, United Kingdom