It concludes with a section on how to encourage the buildup of earthworm populations in agricultural fields, as well as some remaining questions that require further study. There are thousands of ...

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.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, now we’ve got jumping earthworms on our hands? Yep, you heard it right, a new invasive species has reared its eyeless and squirming head in these ...

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 ...

Numerous species dependent on the prairie have experienced dramatic population declines, and many plants are thought to have disappeared from the region altogether. Determined to prevent the giant ...

We’re here in the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Garden and it’s spring, it’s damp in the soil, it’s really mild it’s the perfect day to go and look for earthworms. People think there is just one ...

Australia is richly endowed with earthworm biodiversity, but of the 750 or so named species of earthworm in Australia, very few have been found in arid environments. The Broken Hill earthworm, a new ...

Although few growers in the Interior have even noticed earthworms in their gardens, this part of the state now boasts 10 species. According to Derek Sikes, entomologist and curator at UA Museum of ...