Earthworms are important allies in creating a soil ecosystem that is conducive to growing flowers, vegetables, turf, shrubs, trees or any type of plant. Deep-dwelling earthworms such as common night ...

Backyard Farmer helps you identify worms & choose herbicide for warm & cool season turf. Backyard Farmer helps you identify worms and answers the question of which herbicide is better for my warm or ...

When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom. Until, that ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

They're long and skinny. They're boomerang-headed and coated in toxic mucus. And they've been hiding in plain sight in the US for a long time. Invasive hammerhead flatworms have distinctive curved ...

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

If you've been to the iconic "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, you've also been less than a mile away from ground zero of a jumping worm's invasion of Minnesota.

Now Columbia scientists have engineered a coloring technique, known as NeuroPAL (a Neuronal Polychromatic Atlas of Landmarks), which makes it possible--at least in experiments with Caenorhabditis ...

CORVALLIS – Jumping worms, a not-so-nice pest that arrived in the United States in the 1920s as fishing bait and as hitchhikers on imported plants and soils, have vaulted into gardens and nurseries up ...