Soil might look like dirt, but it’s actually a bustling underground city, and earthworms are the VIPs everyone wants at the party. These wriggly, glossy engineers don’t just wiggle around for fun—they ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 29, 2019) A soil health monitoring study in England finds that an alarming 42% of surveyed fields are deficient in a wriggly measurement—earthworm populations. Over half the ...

Earthworms are a great indicator of soil health and are easy to look for in the field. In North Dakota, we have about a dozen species of earthworms with the main genus being Aporrectodea, or grey ...

"How do worms make the soil good?" asked a curious student at Libertyville Recreation Department's Kinder Korner Preschool program. The earthworms you see when you dig in your yard are pretty short, ...

Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: Earthworms, the hardworking invertebrates that grace the upper layers of soil, have long been considered helpful in our home gardens. Earthworms are prolific munchers, grinding ...

Transforming bare and compacted soil in vineyards can boost numbers of important invertebrate, say advocates Vineyards are generally the most inhospitable of landscapes for the humble earthworm; the ...

Farmers to change soil management practices after survey identified severe decline of earthworms in farmland fields. A study of England’s farmland has found key earthworm types are rare or absent in ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 18, 2025) Published in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, a study of earthworms (Eisenia fetida) evaluates the toxicity of environmentally relevant levels of ...

A National Park Service staffer applies herbicide to invasive honeysuckle along the Natchez Trace Parkway. NPS Small but mighty, earthworms transform the soil of any ecosystem they inhabit. In farm ...

A healthy soil is described as a living system that helps to maintain and enhance the natural environment, which in turn makes for more productive crops. That’s a shortened version of the UN Food and ...