In this practical activity, your class will examine the importance of earthworms in breaking down organic matter to produce soil which helps plants to grow. You'll go looking for earthworms by using ...
The power of non-native worms can be harnessed for good through vermicomposting: marshalling worms to eat your scraps and ...
One acre of worms can break up about 50 tonnes of soil. They don't eat living plant tissue, and so don't hurt plants either. They truly are a gardener's best friend! Some people even keep them as ...
Watch how compost worms demolish a banana in 21 days and learn some great tips for time lapse photography. I love photography ...
Those are the worms you want to attract to your garden, and they burrow into the soil and have a reddish ring that's raised, ...
A practical observation activity looking at soil in detail, with discussion points about soil contents and soil quality for plants and earthworms. Key Stage: KS2 Year 3 (ages 7-8) Time required: ...
This project will show children how worms turn plant waste into soil, introduce them to 'recycling' and 'useful waste', and encourage them to look closely at worms and other garden wildlife.
and the worms further process the mixture and aid in the soil’s ability to sustain plant life. It might sound fairly obvious that organic matter like feces would serve to turn Mars dirt into ...
In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, worms show no genetic damage despite living in highly radioactive soil, and free-ranging ...
Hawaii has no native earthworms, but they have spread throughout the forest in Hawaii. Research shows more worms where pigs are present, indicating that they benefit each other with the ...