The species of nightcrawler in the north-central region is Lumbricus terrestris. The length of adult nightcrawlers is usually 4 to 8 inches or more. Figure 1. The shallow-dwelling worms (known as ...

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 floor and ...

Worm casts, also called vermicompost, are tiny clumps of soil ejected from the digestive tract of certain earthworm species ...

Vanderbilt University researcher Ken Catania told me that lactating females can eat up to 50 large Lumbricus earthworms – about 5 times their body weight – per day!). Even more astonishing was ...

To begin, acquire a worm bin or create your own using a plastic container with ventilation holes. Add bedding material such as shredded newspaper or cardboard, and introduce redworms (Eisenia fetida) ...