These earthworms eat the soil and obtain nutrients from it. Soil contains bacteria, fungi, and sometimes small pieces of organic matter, which these worms use for nutrients.

You might find one eating a nonnative earthworm. Whit Gibbons is professor of zoology and senior biologist at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.

Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root growth.

Walking into How to Eat Fried Worms, the adaptation of a 1973 kid-lit classic that I remember enjoying back in grade school — not as much as Encyclopedia Brown but more than Hooples on the ...

Like many other worms, they eat leaves. But the problem with jumping worms is that they are never satisfied, so they will keep eating the entire litter layer, which is home to many tiny insects.

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The author of the 1973 children's book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson's disease and other ailments. He was 91.

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These worms can stretch out a foot in length, and they leave a shiny, silvery trail reminiscent of a snail. They require moist conditions to survive; they are slimy to the touch but do not bite or ...