Earthworms are excellent composters. They eat a wide variety of foods, from plant vegetation to animal waste, to fruits and vegetable scraps. Having digested this matter they release it as composted soil, which contains many minerals and nutrients that would…
Earthworms have small mouths that they use to break up and eat a wide variety of foods. They will eat leaves, roots, fungi and even microorganisms that also live within the soil. Do earthworms have mouths? Earthworms do have small…
Earthworms do not have lungs like mammals, but they do breathe. Earthworms breathe through their skin, oxygen entering into their bloodstream through diffusion. In order for this to occur they need to stay moist at all times. Do earthworms breathe…
Earthworms do have brains but they are much simpler than our own, being more like a collection of nerves. As well as brains they have a series of ganglia along their length that carry out certain commands. What is a…
Earthworms do not have eyes, in the sense that we think of them. Instead, they have a number of light receptors to help them detect light and dark. These receptors cannot make out forms and colours in the way our…
Earthworms move through the soil by a combination of flexing their muscles and using bristly hairs to brace themselves. Hairy little worms Do you think you could use their hair to get around? No, probably not. Yet this is precisely…
