Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1037/en

and is active in a highly specialized, breaking-down and transforming way. Each animal species finds, prepared in the food chain, the nourishment for which its sense of taste and digestive activity are organized. Last of all comes the compost worm related to the earthworm (*Eisenia foetida*), which performs by far the greater part of the actual digestive and material renewal work. Acting in a similar direction, though weighing less in quality and mass, are ringed worms (*Annelida*), centipedes (*Myriapoda*), woodlice (*Isopoda*), insect larvae and others.