Happy #WorldEarthwormDay! 🪱 To celebrate, here is a beautiful plate of an Earthworm (& friends) from "Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people" (1889) digitised for BHL by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28687600. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🪱

It's #WorldEarthwormDay 🪱 and we're celebrating these heroes of the soil in all their glory with some facts & figures. To find out more about these wriggly champions, click on ⬇️

#Earthworms #Soil #SoilHealth

Happy #WorldEarthwormDay2025!
Though common garden earthworms (lumbricus terrestris) sound less grand than tiger worms (eisenia fetida, a specific type of earthworm), Wriggle Room's striped inhabitants wish for all worms to live together in peace and solidarity
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Pleased to be part of this important letter led by @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social, calling for greater global action to protect soil biodiversity! A timely publication also because today is #WorldEarthwormDay 🌍🪱

What will you be doing to celebrate #WorldEarthwormDay tomorrow?

Can earthworms adapt to climate change? Researchers are to investigate whether the humble earthworm is threatened by climate change and flooding in the UK.

Earthworm populations impact soil health, biodiversity, farming and more. 🪱

Dr Megan Klaar, Professor Mark Hodson and Dr Michael Berenbrink investigate how they're affected by climate change and flooding.

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Book review: ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms’ by Charles Darwin Charles Darwin's wonderful final book.

21-Oct: To mark #WorldEarthwormDay, here’s my review of *the* book on the subject: Charles Darwin’s final masterpiece, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms’.
#HisSci #NatureWriting
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