Earthworms have long been associated with healthy ... Typical agricultural fields may have one to five different shallow-dwelling species and perhaps one deep- burrowing species. The deep-burrowers ...

There are about 34,000 different types of worm; many are so small you wouldn't be able to see them without a microscope! Worms are hermaphrodite, which means they have both male and female ...

The use of inorganic compost didn’t have an effect on earthworm numbers. We found different earthworm types have different habitat preferences so creating a mixture of habitats in your garden, or ...

One of my Ph.D. students was studying soil development here and she quickly alerted me to differences in earthworm numbers found below different species of trees planted in the late 1950s.

Yep, you heard it right, a new invasive species has reared ... The ability of earthworms, writ large, to reduce that leaf litter, to mix up different soil horizons, to add a whole lot of bacteria ...