Adults feed on many things including decaying matter, excreta, and flowers.

Stone centipedes are found under stones or bark, in soil and decaying matter.

In this way they become carriers of the decaying matter responsible for childbed fever.

Did that lump of decaying matter down there come from such a place?

They contain no chlorophyll and live on decaying matter.

Female adult flies usually choose decaying matter as sites to lay the eggs.

Organic remains are the decaying matter of a once living organism.

But some carrion flies, which feed on dead or decaying matter, are around.

Another is that chlorine could react with decaying organic matter to make hazardous substances.

This decaying matter and abundant sunlight promote an abundance of new growth.