Footnote: I believe there is no foundation for the supposition that earthworms attack the tuber of the potato.
The perforations of the earthworms and of many insect larvae mechanically affect the texture of the soil and its permeability by water, and they therefore have a certain influence on the form and character of terrestrial surface.
The earthworms long ago made good their title to the respect and gratitude of the farmer as well as of the angler.
Well, snails and earthworms are both regarded as delicacies by many people in France.
In that country, also, the earthwormsof Europe are noticed to replace native forms as the ground is broken.
And the recession of the New Zealand earthwormsand flies before exotic forms probably falls under this category.
Earthworms are so vitally important to soil fertility and additionally useful as agents of compost making that an entire section of this book will consider them in great detail.
Because of the high rate of bacterial decomposition, few earthwormsare found in tropical soils unless they are continuously ammended with substantial quantities of organic matter.
Earthworms need moisture; few if any will be found in deserts.
Earthworms are inhibited by acid soils and/or soils deficient in calcium.
Diazinon has not been shown to be at all harmful to earthworms when used at normal rates.
During high summer the fewearthworms found will be small and young.
In one study, simply returning the manure resulting from hay taken off a pasture increased earthworms by one-third.
Every time compost is added to a garden, the soil's ability to support earthworms increases.
Carbaryl (Sevin), one of the most commonly used home garden chemical pesticides, is deadly to earthworms even at low levels.
When active, some species of earthworms daily eat a quantity of soil equal to their own body weight.
Bibliography On composting and soil organic matter Workshop on the Role of Earthworms in the Stabilization of Organic Residues, Vol.
A level of fertility that will grow wheat is not enough nutrition to grow vegetables, butearthworms can make a major contribution to the garden.
Numerous species ofearthworms eat their way through the soil, taking in a mixture of earth, microbes, and the excrement of soil animals.
He also puts into the tube seven earthworms beaten into a paste, and several splinters from a tree which has been struck by lightning.
The doe hare had long since rustled by, and the hedgehogs were busy munching a cluster of earthworms discovered in a heap of refuse not far from the gate, when Reynard stole over the fence-bank, and sniffed at the nest.
The May Beetle larvae did not go out at all, because they were too young, and the Earthworms never knew what was going on outside unless somebody told them.
Sometimes they even told the Earthworms and May Beetle larvae stories that were not so, and that shows what sort of children they were.
They were quite popular in underground society, and were much liked by the Earthworms and May Beetle larvae, who enjoyed hearing stories of what the Cut-Worms saw above ground.
One Spotted Cut-Worm heard a couple of Earthworms talking about Ground Moles, and told them that Ground Moles were large birds with four wings apiece and legs like a Caterpillar's.
In his fondness for earthworms Whitooweek long ago learned some things that a man goes all his life without discovering, namely, that it is much easier and simpler to pick up worms than to dig for them.
Earthworms and other animals whose home is in the waste drag them into their burrows either for food or to line their nests.
So far as is known, the production of cocoons is universal among earthworms and the remaining Oligochaeta of aquatic habit.
Like the leeches the earthworms produce cocoons which are a product of the glandular epithelium of the clitellum.
Most earthworms live in the soil, which they devour as they burrow through it.
The young leave the cocoon as fully formed earthworms in which, however, the genitalia are not fully developed.
The work of earthworms in aiding in the production of the subsoil and in levelling the surface was first studied by C.
The only important geological work of my father's later years is embodied in his book on earthworms (1881), which may therefore be conveniently considered in this place.
The blind earthworms of malice might delude themselves if they liked, but he could see, and he must face the truth.
Earthworms were not only scrutinised in their out-of-door work, but were kept in confinement and studied.
Probably, however, in its perambulations and peregrinations upon the surface of the earth the bird now and then does pick up a small earthworm, for earthworms form a staple food for many birds when the ground is moist.
Earthworms live underground in burrows that are sunk well below the frost line.
These however are quite exceptions to the general sterility as regards earthworms of the excessively cold regions.
Thus species of Enchytraeidae have been met with on glaciers and even found in frozen water, while a few earthworms have been brought from the island of Kolguev.
This species indeed is the most prevalent of all Pheretimas and seems to be abundant in gatherings of earthworms from various localities as are Eudrilus and Pontoscolex.
Can this interchange of Oligochaetous faunas be explained by any means which earthworms possess of crossing tracts of sea by the aid of living carriers such as birds?
Another fact is the simple undivided cavity of the sperm sacs which is unlike that of typical earthworms but again like that of all of the Limicolous families.
But while the bodily transference of adult earthworms seems highly improbable it is conceivable at the first view that their cocoons might be so transferred.
And often I carry it over my arm with things in it--earthworms for baby birds, bandages for the folks that get hurt, and mentholatum in quinine boxes.
I have thinks they do have seeing of black velvet moles and large earthworms that do get short in a quick way.
As I did go on, I did have sees there wereearthworms on the window-panes over the young cabbage-plants.
Thus, earthworms are adapted to their mode of life better than they would be if more highly organised.
The Honey-buzzard sometimes eats not only earthworms and slugs, but even corn; and the Buteo borealis of North America, whose usual food is small mammals and birds, sometimes eats crayfish.
Moreover, the earthworms are doing over and over again this work of fining and turning over the soil, which the plough does but seldom.
Earthworms have no teeth, but they have a long snout that protrudes beyond the mouth.
This is why earthworms are never seen above ground except on rainy days, and never in the top soil if it has become dry.
Earthworms explore the surface of the soil by night, and pick up what they can find of fresh food.
In England, earthworms have done a great deal more toward burying boulders and ancient ruins than any other agency.
By the continuous carrying up of their castings, the earthworms gradually bury manures spread on the surface.
A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
An order of Annelida which includes the earthwormsand related species.
This will force the earthwormsto migrate down to the bottom of the container which will have some moisture as compared with the top soil.
The earthworms present in the soil feed on the humus.
Extracts from Diary: Earthworms 10th November: Sir gave me a book on earthworms to read, then Jagan took me down to the field.
Chapter 8: Earthworms On the 6th of November, I was put on the Chennai Express, which was to leave Dadar Railway station at 7 p.
Eating earthworms was not part of my diet or training, but once I saw Mr Shirke toss one into his mouth after being challenged to do so by one of the boys.
Earthworms have proven that they are wonderful creatures for they can truly turn garbage into gold.
During the first two days I read up as much as I could about earthworms and the world they inhabit from books which were recommended to me by Dr Ismail.
We made many observations which included the number and species of earthworms we found and whether they were clitellates or not.
The most suitable earthworms recommended for vermiculture are the epigeic and anecic earthworms.
In fact if earthworms are kept in water for too long, the concentration of ammonia that is discharged through their excreta makes the water too toxic for the earthwormsto survive.
The earthworms should then be introduced and the soil moistened a little.
At the end of the course, I practically prepared a vermi-bed and also ate a few earthworms and cockroaches for experience!
Hence to keep earthworms alive in the vermicompost containers, care should be taken to ensure that the vermibed remains moist.
It is generally seen in the underbrush, picking about among the dead leaves for its steady diet of earthworms and larvae of insects, occasionally regaling itself with a few dropping berries and fruit.
It is generally seen in the underbrush, picking about among the dead leaves for its steady diet of earthworms and larvA| of insects, occasionally regaling itself with a few dropping berries and fruit.
From all corners of the quadrangle, the slidewalks carried Earthworms in their green uniforms, upper-class cadets in deep blue, enlisted spacemen in scarlet red, and Solar Guard officers in their striking uniforms of black and gold.
Far below, on the grounds of the Academy, cadets wearing the green uniforms of first-year Earthworms and the blue of the upper-classmen stopped all activity as they heard the blasting of the braking rockets high in the heavens.
All reptiles belong to the class of insects, for the same reasons thatearthworms belong to it.
Earthworms are sometimes transported in the balls of earth in which the roots of trees are enveloped.
The beetles Rhopalomesites Tardyi, Eurynebria complanata, and Otiorrhynchus auropunctatus also belong to this fauna, as also the Earthworms Allolobophora veneta and A.
Two Earthwormsof the Spanish and Mediterranean region, viz.
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