The worms' digestive systems also add beneficial microbes to help create a "living" soil environment for plants.

This will increase the beneficial microbes in your small heap, and when the weather warms, the decaying process will continue.

Worms enrich soil by recycling it through their guts, adding beneficial microbes in the process.

Medical microbiology is not only about diagnosing and treating disease, it also involves the study of beneficial microbes.

So some are focusing their research on understanding the "communities" of microbes, harmful and beneficial, whose interactions in large part determine the health of crops.

Create beneficial microbes to make them produce bio-products.

The addition of beneficial microbes to the coir media have been successful in tropical green house conditions and interior spaces as well.

Probiotics, which consist of beneficial microbes, may help treat some kinds of diarrhea, studies suggest.

Studies suggest that these natural remedies, which contain beneficial microbes, may help prevent or treat some digestive problems.

The reason: Because these powerful drugs target bacteria in general, they can disrupt populations of beneficial microbes.