11.   Begin a compost pile to accept leaf litter and other yard debris later in the fall.

12.   A few May apples were just beginning to pop up out of the leaf litter, and a forest of skunk cabbage meandered along the stream.

13.   But in worm-free zones, like those in Michigan or Minnesota, that layer of leaf litter is much deeper.

14.   But once the worms move in, they devour that leaf litter and alter the landscape below the surface.

15.   But they are beautiful creations, with thousands of cells assembled from masticated wood pulp and leaf litter into a structure the shape of a hanging Japanese paper lantern.

16.   Check the gutters for leaf litter even if you cleaned them earlier.

17.   Elsewhere, either the possums had gotten to the flowers first or the scavenging mice and rats had gleaned every nutritious bit from the leaf litter.

18.   In early autumn, the adult moths emerge and lay their eggs in the leaf litter, and the cycle begins again.

19.   Moist tropical forests become prone to burning when the leaf litter and undergrowth dries up after unusually long periods of drought, and fire spreads from surrounding grasslands.

20.   Most ladybug species hibernate outdoors, burrowed in leaf litter.