When a large tree dies and its leaves wither and fall, the nutrients in its "corpse" attract not only parasitic plants and fungi, but also swarms of cigarette beetles, Japanese rhinoceros beetles and termites. The tree is gradually broken down and digested, and thus returned to Nature by these small creatures. By feasting on the insects on the tree, the birds get in on the act as well.
大樹死掉，落葉凋零，身上肥沃的養分，引來附生植物與菌類，接著甲蟲、獨角仙、白蟻也一擁而上，大樹逐步被消化分解，藉由小生物重新回歸自然，同時，鳥兒也來湊上一腳，找尋枯木內的昆蟲飽餐一頓。