Nightcrawlers construct middens over the mouth of their burrows. Middens are a mixture of plant residues and castings (worm feces) and probably serve as protection as well as a food reserve. Because ...

Mr Calder produces and sells "worm tea" — essentially worm castings, or worm poo, in liquid form. It's becoming increasingly ...

Worms can live for up to 10 years. Worms eat their own weight in organic waste, soil and minerals and excrete their own weight in castings daily, which makes compost and enriches the soil.

The vermicompost, or worm castings, produced in the process are highly valuable as a soil amendment. Vermicompost is rich in ...

Earthworms bring down and consume organic matter such as leaf litter and their waste (worm castings) provides the nutrients in soil. The relative acidity/alkalinity of the soil plays a big part in ...

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 ...

Earthworms are the engineers of the soil, bringing benefits to farmers The first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled, based on surveys at 7,000 sites in 56 countries. The findings will ...

Once declared by Aristotle to be “the intestines of the earth,” earthworms have been recognized for centuries as essential to the health of our planet's soil. But one of the most interesting ...

Worms and worm gears are gear sets that offer high gear reduction and torque multiplication with a small footprint. A worm drive is a cylindrical gear with a shallow spiral thread that engages the ...

A worm composter, or wormery, can turn your kitchen food scraps into fantastic fertiliser for your house plants and garden. Compact, smell-free and faster than normal composting, a wormery harnesses ...

For decades, scientists have been developing soft robots inspired by a creature often taken for granted - the humble earthworm. Though specific features will vary by species, many earthworms are ...