Here's a promising get-rich-quick scheme for gardeners: It's called vermiculture, or worm composting, and along with super-sizing crop yields, it cuts water bills, conditions soils and repels ...

Many gardeners rely on compost to help improve their soils. Taking compost a step further, some gardeners use worms to break down the compost even more. Vermicomposting, or worm composting, uses red ...

The worms can jump as much as a foot off the ground. They also can make the soil inhospitable for native plants and insects.

In a recent study measuring the body size and growth patterns of invasive earthworms in the Huron Mountains, researchers ...

I’m no longer able to find an earthworm in my garden, whereas before, they were innumerable. What happened to them? Is there a method for how to increase earthworm population in soil? Where Did My ...

Earthworms help crops recover in microplastic-polluted soil, boosting growth and restoring soil nutrients in a new Kunming ...

Scientists studying the body size and growth patterns of non-native earthworms in the UP say they are disrupting forest ...

Earthworms. To many, they are an icky organism that crawls onto our carports after a heavy rain. But these creatures should not be thought of as a nuisance; in fact they should be considered nature’s ...

Michigan gardeners are being urged to prevent the spread of these invasive jumping worms, which can flip themselves a foot ...