Winter squash is an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, alpha-carotene and beta-carotene. It is also a very good source of thiamin, vitamin B6, potassium, magnesium, and manganese, and a good source of iron.
Spiders are, for the most part, such generalist feeders that they kill many useful insects as well as many pest species, however because pest species are by their nature more numerous than beneficial species they are still effective. They are of great value to the environment.
Besides their direct contributions to ecosystem services, nematodes are also useful bioindicators of the abundance and activity of other soil organisms providing similar services (Ferris et al., 2012b;Georgieva et al., 2005;S anchez-Moreno et al., 2008S anchez-Moreno et al., , 2009Yeates et al., 2009).