Butte County is best known for rice fields and orchards, but a family-run worm farm in Durham is carving out a unique role in ...

Male stolon (right hand side): one of the independent reproductive units of a branching marine worm, growing at the tip of a branch of the worm’s body. It has sprouted eyes and will go swimming free ...

WASHINGTON — Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root ...

Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Scientists have long known how beneficial earthworms are for soil, and that concept has taken root in one composting business in West Michigan. Luis Chen started his micro ...

This week I’m staying at Morgan Composting making Dairy Doo, but now we are talking Worm Doo! That’s right! Worm Doo is something you can use for your raised beds or just in the ground. In order to ...

With several national space agencies hoping to establish permanent bases on the moon, humans may find themselves sharing the lunar surface with some unexpected fellow explorers: worms. The other ...

A ribbon worm kept in a laboratory aquarium for decades has turned out to be the oldest known example of its kind. Its age, ...

NOW THAT SUMMER has officially arrived and your garden is growing like crazy, your vegetable garden is in productive mode and the daylight is long — here is a very timely article on the highly ...

Scientists figured out the biochemical process that lets the turf-conscious worms grow sharp teeth using very simple materials. By Veronique Greenwood Glycera dibranchiata is exactly the kind of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A species of wiggling worms can jump a foot in the air, and they’ve spread to more than a dozen states in the Midwest, including Kansas and Missouri The jumping worm, also known as ...

You’re not likely to witness a horsehair worm making its exit from a praying mantis, but if you do, it’s quite a sight. The spaghetti-like worm, under wet conditions, gradually wiggles out of its host ...