Anecic worms eat soil and any organic matter (plant or animal) found in the earth. These worms also come up to the surface and eat fallen leaves, bark pieces, and decaying animal matter.

Earthworms are eating machines. They shred organic matter and break up hard soils by tunneling through them and, in effect, tilling them. As a result, they create subterranean paths that aerate ...

Earthworms engineer the soil that grows the food we eat and the flowers we love to look at. Indeed, they are the primary drivers in soil formation.. The earthworm gut is a bit like a biological ...

Earthworms help improve soil nutrition. They feed on decomposing organic matter such as leaves and dead plant roots. The nutrients they eat become concentrated in their digestive system and are ...

Earthworms help soil become healthy and healthy soils are good habitats for earthworms — so the process is cyclical. “It's a bit like the egg and the chicken,” Butt adds. Plus, earthworm castings are ...

In this process, soil particles along with digested organic material are coated with mucous from the worms’ digestive tracts. The result is pure fertilizer for your garden.

Earthworms are soil's silent heroes: 3 Malaysian vermiculturists tell us why ... They can eat more than their body weight and churn out half their body weight in vermicast a day.