compost heap

The boards themselves began to degrade after just 1 month in a compost heap.

“He would sleep at the compost heap, wake up, hop over a few trees to a favorite perch and then hunt for rats,” Lei said.

"The Craterium minutum slime mould was found on decaying vegetation, at the edge of a compost heap in my garden, captured following a hard frost," said Webb.

These practices include generating "middens" -- piles of waste and food scraps, similar to compost heaps, that are maintained in certain locations around the center of a village.

They inhabit rubbish bins, compost heaps or any place where food is present, including drains.