Recent rain has caused the hammerhead flatworm, an invasive species, to emerge from its underground home, experts said.

These earthworms eat the soil and obtain nutrients from it. Soil contains bacteria, fungi, and sometimes small pieces of organic matter, which these worms use for nutrients. Fungi, known as ...

As carnivorous cannibals, the worms eat snails, slugs, and each other (no love lost there), as well as earthworms, the loss of which would pose a catastrophic threat to farms and gardens. Jul 27, 2023 ...

His story was told last week in Nature Magazine by John Edwin Hogg. Constantly and voraciously, earthworms eat earth, dead leaves, decaying organic matter of all sorts. The waste material they ...