Our top 30 of garden creatures includes toads, slow-worms, dragonflies and even the humble earthworm. |
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Serotonin is a biogenic amine that modulates smooth muscle contractions of the crop and gizzard of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris. |
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Declines in other plants, such as the northeastern trout lily, have also been anecdotally linked with exotic earthworm invasions, he said. |
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They are members of the phylum Annelida, the group that includes segmented worms such as leeches, tube worms, and the familiar earthworm. |
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I watched one that had caught a particularly large and wriggly earthworm but couldn't manage to eat it. |
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Darwin's last major publication was a treatise on the lowly earthworm that exemplified the meticulous scientific method that brought him to fame. |
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Our hay and pasture fields are really thriving, and the earthworm population is amazing. |
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Or supercharge your compost pile and create an earthworm population explosion. |
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The insectan nervous system evolved from the segmented system of annelid worms, such as the earthworm. |
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Remember when you saw an earthworm poke itself out of the ground and the caterpillar eating your mother's parsley. |
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For example, an earthworm divided in two could regenerate into a complete individual. |
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Ringtails are able to hear very quiet noises such as an earthworm digging underground. |
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The classic textbook on earthworm biology by one of the world's leading authorities. |
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As a last resort, you can use sulphur or diatomaceous earth to reduce the earthworm population. |
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Number of scientific studies demonstrated the presence of auxin, gibberilin and cytokinin in earthworm castings. |
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Did the earthworm choose to dig everlastingly, to pass countless tons of earth through its body over the centuries to help cultivate the soil for plant life? |
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Take a moment to think of the unsuspecting earthworm, A handy little critter if you need something at the end of a fishing line. |
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Vermicomposting is a mesophilic bio-oxidative process of organic materials that involves the joint action of earthworm and micro-organism. |
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Many U. S. rabbit growers place earthworm beds under their rabbit hutches to catch the pellets as they drop through the wire mesh cage floors. |
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Once the survey is complete, Dr. Clapperton hopes to draw maps pinpointing earthworm distribution across Canada. |
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One of the most detailed studies of earthworm activities was conducted by English naturalist Charles Darwin. |
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It has been estimated that an earthworm ingests and discards its own weight in food and soil every day. |
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About 3,500 living species are known, the most familiar of which is the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris. |
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It's part of a five-year survey to map every different species of earthworm in Canada, and their habitats. |
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This soil has been moved to the surface by earthworm activity in the 35 years since establishment. |
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It is interesting to note that the interaction of another hemolytic protein, the earthworm hemolysin eiseniapore, with lipid membranes has been shown to require sphingolipids. |
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Grab your shovel and start digging! Worm Watch is a nationwide earthworm census to help scientists understand the biodiversity of the soil and uncover the origin of worms in Canada. |
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The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses. |
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Essentially, they found that soil particles, with the attached phosphorus, could be carried by water that flows in cracks and through earthworm borrows to lower levels of the soil profile. |
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And at long last the earthworm... is getting the attention it deserves. |
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The Applied Ecotoxicology group has developed several biomarkers of exposure and of toxicity for different plant and earthworm species, including enzymes of oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation. |
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They found that cracks allowed water to infiltrate into the soil, but that earthworm burrows carried the water from the plow layer positions either directly to or in close proximity to the tile drains. |
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There will be many special programmes on the day for children, including the study of a special species of earthworm to demonstrate the importance of protecting soil. |
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The clitellum of the earthworm secretes a case, or cocoon, into which is secreted a material that serves as nourishment for the young and a mucous substance that aids in copulation. |
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Micro-PIXE studies of Cd distribution in the nephridia of the earthworm Eisenia fetida. |
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His master's thesis was on earthworm locomotion. |
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Take a moment if you will to think of the unassuming little earthworm... a handy critter if you need something on the end of a fishing line... a great meal for a robin... a mess on the driveway after a rainstorm. |
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Encourage, through good soil management, earthworm activity and numbers because they will drag into their burrows and consume large quantities of apple leaves. |
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This snake feeds on the larvae, eggs, and pupae of ants and termites, and is about the size of a large earthworm. |
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One would expect for the earthworm population to decrease as the moles feed, however no research has shown this to be true. |
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Queensland's Great Barrier Reef is home to the world's largest oyster, weighing up to 3 kilograms, while the world's longest earthworm, stretching up to 4 metres, is found in Gippsland in Victoria. |
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For quinoxyfen additional data was requested concerning bird reproductive toxicity, earthworm reproductive toxicity, organic breakdown, soil accumulation. |
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Chapuis-Lardy L, Brossard M, Lavelle P, Schouller E Phosphorus transformations in a ferralsol through ingestion by Pontoscolex corethrurus, a geophagous earthworm. |
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We've had sharks, piranha and killer bees, but cult director Jeff Lieberman turned to the humble earthworm for his 1976 natureattacks horror cheapie. |
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Can't stomach the thought of slurping down even a single earthworm? |
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Restoration Home A 16th century Norfolk home is beset with damp, earthworm and deathwatch beetle, and features more architectural styles than you can shake a stick at. |
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Blanchart E, Lavelle P, Braudeau E, Le Bissonnais Y, Valentin C Regulation of soil structure by geophagous earthworm activities in humid savannas of Cote d'Ivoire. |
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The common earthworm is a universal bait for fresh water angling. |
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In fact for the standard earthworm it means they may not survive, so vermiculture has quite a specialised interest in these worms which seem to love high temperatures. |
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Earthworm sampling, using a mustard vermifuge, occurred over 8 weeks in exotic and native plant plots. |
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Hadrian's Wall becomes Mountain Earthworm and Welsh village Llanfairpwllgwyngyll is Martian Village. |
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