Aborted Entoloma
Decomposer
565 objects
Meet the cleanup crew of nature! These vital organisms help break down dead things, returning nutrients to the soil and keeping our ecosystems healthy.
Describes organisms that break down dead organic material, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.
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Acalyptrate Flies
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Agonum
Agrocybe
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
Amanita Amerirubescens Group
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Amano Shrimp
Amber Wood Cockroach
American Carpenter Ant
American Carrion Beetle
American Dyeball
American Earwort
American Giant Millipede Complex
American Royal Fern
American Winter Ant
Ampedus
Angel'S Wings
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Anomalous Bristle-moss
Ant-like Longhorn Beetle
Asian Needle Ant
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Atlantic Fig Snail
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Bacteria
Baldwin'S Flatsedge
Banana Slug
Banded Sexton Beetle
Bank Haircap Moss
Bare-Bottomed Sunburst Lichen
Bearded Carpenter ant
Bent-Spined Acorn Ant
Bicolored Carpenter Ant
Bicolored Pennant Ant
Bigelow's sedge
Black Longicorn Beetle
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Black Pine Sawyer Beetle
Black Slug
Black Soldier Fly
Black Tegula
Black snail beetle
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Black-Staining Polypore
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Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
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Blister Glassy-Bubble
Bloody-nosed Beetle
Blow Flies
Blue Fungus Beetle
Bluebottle Flies
Bluebottle Fly
Bluefoot Bonnet
Boletes
Bolitophila
Bonfire Moss
Boreal Burying Beetle
Bracket Fungus
Broad-footed Mole
Broad-necked Root Borer
Bronze Beetle
Brown American Star-Footed Amanita
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Brown Rove Beetle
Brown-lipped Snail
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Bruchus affinis
Bryaceae
Bud-headed Groove-moss
Bull Kelp
Burrowing Mayflies
Cabbage Parachute
Caddisflies
California Agaricus
California Broad-necked Darkling Beetle
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California Horntail
California Oak Moth
Camembert Brittlegill
Camponotus fallax
Candleflame Lichen
Carabus purpurascens
Carex colchica
Carpenter Sawyer Beetle
Cat's Tail Moss
Catherine's moss
Cave Snail
Cedar-Apple Rust
Changeable Mantleslug
Cherry Shot Hole
Chinese Mystery Snail
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Chip Cherries
Chironomus
Chrysomyinae
Ciliate Hoarmoss
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Clay-coloured Weevil
Click Beetle
Cluster Flies
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Coast Mole
Cockchafers
Coiled-leaf claw-moss
Common Atlantic Slippersnail
Common Bonnet
Common Coral Slime
Common Duckweed
Common Earthball
Common European Scorpionfly
Common Flesh Flies
Common Gilled Mushrooms And Allies
Common Greenshield Lichen
Common Lichens
Common Pill Woodlouse
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Common Rough Woodlouse
Common Sunburst Lichen
Common Wormsnake
Compact Carpenter Ant
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Conecaps
Conifer Chicken Of The Woods
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Coniontis
Coral Fungi
Coralline algae
Cortinariaceae
Cortinarius Angelesianus
Cotesia