LIVE WEBCAM WITH COMPOST HEAP CRITTERS
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- Location: The Piedmont, North Carolina, United States
- Source: Just Bill - Live Stream
- Info: Live streaming webcam focused on a compost heap in a garden in North Carolina. All kinds of critters visit this organic pile, including birds, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, snakes, mice, and even curious cats!
More info: A compost heap can provide a refuge and feeding area for all sorts of creatures such as hedgehogs, beetles, toads, bats, birds, snakes and small mammals. Many of these eat insects and slugs and therefore act as natural pest controllers, reducing the need for pesticides and other chemicals in the garden.
Compost is a rich soil-like material and works wonders around the garden. It lightens heavy soils, helps light soils hold more water, feeds plants and helps control diseases.
Composting depends on microscopic plants and animals, and some larger organisms as well, which feed upon the refuse and break it down gradually into simple substances which plant roots can absorb.