Part book tour diary, part earthworm love story From Amy Stewart, author of The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

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January 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Dec   Feb Home The Earth Moved Meet Me On Tour Garden Blogs and Worm Links: Accidental Smallholder Bookish Gardener Erica’s Garden Spot Garden of Dead Bugs O is for Orchids You Grow Girl Garden Porn More Garden Blogs Worm Digest Mary Appelhof, Worm Woman Happy D Ranch, Worm Suppliers Vermico, Worm Seminars and More Salon home Salon Blogs: - Updates - Rankings - Start your own blog Subscribe to this blog in Radio: E-mail this blog's author, Amy Stewart:		Saturday, January 17, 2004 More Worm Portraiture It's not easy to identify worms by sight, but I think this one is Aporrectodea caliginosa, also called a field worm or a grey worm. It's an endogeic worm, which means that it does not come to the surface of the soil but does not build a permanent burrow, either.  It lives its life entwined in the roots of plants, helping to feed the plant through its constant plowing of the soil.  It's fascinating to watch this worm move because you can actually see the soil in its gut moving underneath its translucent skin. 3:20:32 PM    comment []

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