🍃A millipede hides under leaves, logs and stones.

🍃It eats bits of rotting leaves.

🪴A springtail eats fungi and rotting plants.

🪵Termites live in big groups. Worker termites eat the wood.

🪲Some dung beetles dig tunnels under dung. They lay eggs in it.

🐜Leafcutter ants carry bits of leaves to the nest.

🐜They do not eat leaves. They grow a fungus and eat it.

🍃In compost, small bugs eat old leaves. They make dark brown compost.

Words to know

• millipede: many-legged bug
• termites: wood-eating bugs
• fungus: food ants grow
• compost: dark brown dirt