'Earthworms\r'

'An red wind digest grow only so long. A vigorous-fed adult volition depend on what kind of twist around it is, how many segments it has, how old it is and how well fed it is. An Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300 millimeters long. A flex has no arms, legs or eyes. There are roughly 2,700 different kinds of earth sucking louses. Worms live where there is food, moisture, oxygen and a favorable temperature. If they don’t have these things, they go somewhere else. In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.\r\nThe largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and careful 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail. Worms tunnel deep in the soil and bring subsoil finisher to the surface mixing it with the topsoil. Slime, a secretion of earthworms, contains nitrogen. north is an important nutrient for plants. The sticky slime helps to die hard clusters of soil particles together in formations called aggregates. Charles Darwin spent 39 old age studying earthworms more than 100 years ago. Worms are cold-blooded animals.\r\nEarthworms have the ability to switch or replicate lost segments. This ability varies greatly depending on the species of worm you have, the amount of damage to the worm and where it is cut. It whitethorn be easy for a worm to replace a lost tail, but may be very difficult or unworkable to replace a lost head if things are non just right. Baby worms are not born. They hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice. The Australian Gippsland Earthworm grows to 12 feet long and can depend 1-1/2 pounds.\r\nEven though worms don’t have eyes, they can sense light, especially at their anterior (front end). They move away from light and will become paralyzed if exposed to light for besides long (approximately one hour). If a worm’s skin dries out, it will die. Worms are hermaphrodites. Each worm has both male and female organs. Worms mate by joining their clitella (swollen area near t he head of a mature worm) and exchanging sperm. Then each worm forms an orb capsule in its clitellum. Worms can eat their load each day.\r\n'