What do earthworms eat? Most of us learn in school that earthworms are good for the soil and help maintain a healthy ...

After day 16, upon removal of the earthworms from the microcosm, they were placed on wet cotton paper over night (to empty gut contents) and then pooled in soil-free sealed flasks. Their ...

Where the $10 words did come in handy was in producing three terms for distinct types of worms that occupy three separate layers of earth: epigeic, endogeic and anecic, or surface, shallow and deep.

The earthworms that gardeners most frequently notice when digging are the anecic and endogeic types. Anecic earthworms, including the familiar night crawler (Lumbricus terrestris), come to the ...

“There are 30 earthworm species just in New York, each with different life histories,” he says. “Some are deep-burrowing. Some live in the soil in the root zone. Amynthas are epi-endogeic — they are ...

The study, to be published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the first to measure the effects of microplastics on endogeic worms, which live in the top soil. Academics from ...

Earthworms are epigeic, endogeic, or anecic worms. Epigeic worms are the surface dwellers, they like the top two to three inches of soil. Epigeic is the Greek translation for ‘on the earth.’ ...