How it works

Critters

Each crew is a colony that grows to what the jar can feed.

Each eats what its diet lists: leaves, rotting soil matter, fungi, rotting wood, moss or algae.
Colonies grow toward the jar's food, then hold there.
Short of food, a colony thins out over weeks.
Springtails crash in dry soil; isopods cope better.
Hungry isopods nibble soft plants.

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