Learn to differentiate between healthy and harmful worms in plant soil for optimal plant health. Wetter, moldier environments attract brown worms; balance soil moisture to prevent infestations.

You'll go looking for earthworms by using mustard water to bring them to the surface of bare soil. The class can compare the number of worms found in different locations and discuss what this means ...

The length of adult nightcrawlers is usually 4 to 8 inches or more. Figure 1. The shallow-dwelling worms (known as redworms, grayworms, fishworms, and many other names) are comprised of many species ...

Ontario has been invaded by worm that are dangerous to pets. There have been reports that hammerhead worms, which can grow to three-feet-long, have recently been found in Newmarket, Hamilton and t ...

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 plan is to develop 1’ to 2’ wormlike robots that both drill into the soil and can also mimic the peristaltic, or wave-like, movements worms make when they tunnel through the soil.

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Students in PEI schools have been learning about raising worms and the importance of keeping the soil healthy.

A new tablet being developed to cure intestinal worms has shown promising results in trials and could help eradicate the parasitic infection, which affects about 1.5 billion people globally, ...

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

After an hour at the Arizona Worm Farm on Sunday afternoon, a couple of dozen Jewish kids knew a few facts about worms, or at ...

Out of concern about crop losses, the worms are conventionally controlled with chemical pesticides. However, these are increasingly being criticized for potentially damaging the soil and water.