A quarter shows the size of a worm burrow. The little round balls are worm droppings, also known as castings. After heavy rains, we often see nightcrawlers, the largest of the earthworm species ...

Common earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris), the species grabbed by this robin (and often called nightcrawlers) are indigenous to parts of Europe. The big worms arrived on American soil in the 1700s ...

1 School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom 2 Department of Horticulture, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Tirgu-Mureș, Romania Evolution ultimately proceeds ...

When not escaping the floods, nightcrawlers (lumbricus terrestris) live in permanent burrows often extending 3 feet into the soil. By contrast, the familiar “red wiggler” earthworms do not have a ...

In addition we gained some information for B. terrestris and L. rubellus offspring from the laboratory studies described above. We conducted parallel laboratory and field studies to evaluate a range ...