These are not ingredients for pastries; they’re finely ground powder made from dried earthworms which she supplies to a local pharmaceutical company. The powder is commonly used as a traditional ...

The giant Gippsland earthworm, native to southeastern Australia's Bass River Valley, can grow up to 9.8 feet long. Listed as Vulnerable, these worms thrive in clayey subsoil and wet environments.

Earthworms may be helpful in a compost heap or in the soil of a vegetable garden. But they are a destructive force in Minnesota’s hardwood forests – chomping up entire layers of the forest ...

Earthworms are vital for soil health, enriching and aerating earth while breaking down organic matter. With 6,000 species globally, they play crucial roles in ecosystems, though some invasive ...

Tens of thousands of species of earthworms are likely to be wriggling in the world’s soil, yet to be discovered by scientists – which will probably take more than 100 years to do. Earthworms ...

A new project will map colonies of endangered giant Gippsland earthworms on farms. The worms, among the biggest in the world, grow to one metre long and are rarely seen above ground. Under the ...

Charles Darwin liked an earthworm. What earthworms felt about Charles Darwin is less clear. For 40 years he studied them, thought about them and experimented on them. He exhaled on them to see if ...

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From ants to caterpillars, Stanford is no stranger to campus critters. A recent Stanford study found that imported earthworm species have taken over much of North America, potentially threatening ...

The ballooning population of non-native "alien" earthworm species in the United States could pose significant ecological consequences, scientists at Stanford University have warned, DailyMail ...

There's been a takeover of North America's soil by scores of non-native earthworm species this past century. It's time we pay more attention to the invaders and their potentially major impact on ...