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 UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

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 ...

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.

Unlike the nightcrawlers and other earthworms we know, Asian jumping worms do not improve soil health to the benefit of plants. Instead, jumping worms (also called crazy worms, snake worms, or ...

Dark, dramatic and dead set on decomposition, soil is alive. Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right beneath our feet. Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just ...

Grubs are a type of worm you never want to see in your garden ... Grubs are the larvae of beetles and live in the soil beneath lawns until they emerge during summer. While in their subterranean ...

To explain these counterintuitive results, the team developed a statistical model that treats the worms as ... “Such a capability could be used to sort worms by activity and therefore optimize soil ...