The caterpillars feed on decaying plants and dry leaves.

The decaying plants keep the oxygen level suppressed.

At schools with decaying plants," the report said, "the questions of state-of-the-art equipment and access become moot.

The stink of decaying plants was all around Pen, a rich, rotten stench.

There was nothing like that here: just grass, a few decaying plants, maybe a worm or two.

Most species appear to be associated with decaying plants or fungi.

By the same token, fish can only eat dead or decaying plants, as they are then soft enough to be eaten.

Lithophytes feed off nutrients from rain water and nearby decaying plants, including their own dead tissue.

They are usually found around dung or decaying plant and animal material.

Someplace ripe with the scent of decaying plants and moldy linens.