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1. Earthworms can remove contaminates from wasteful water
2. Fetzer has made a bioreactor that can remove 99% of contaminates from working with earthworms

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tyler palencer-Earthworms: Can these gardeners' friends actually become foes?

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tyler palencer-Earthworms: Can these gardeners' friends actually become foes?

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Asian jumpers get as big as the width of a pencil and six inches long
they jump, wiggle, and squirm when touched
they consume leaf litter too fast
they live in large numbers
they were originally brought to break up the thick Alabama clay.
the asian jumpers were brought both intentionally and unintentionally from asia, and are now consuming leaf litter too fast in 20 states, making it so that trees and plants dont have the needed stuff to grow

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Alyda Leissner_Ten Interesting Facts Website

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Alyda Leissner_Ten Interesting Facts Website

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1. 60 are invasive species, brought over from the Old World, including the night crawler.

7. As duff disappears, so do the insects and other small creatures that depend on it for survival, with the result that animals such as salamanders lose a key food source and face population declines. Earthworm burrows also may speed the passage of water through forest soil, another change that might be a benefit to farmland or a garden with compacted soil but that is a negative in a northern forest.

MAIN IDEA: There are many invasive species and a lot of them damage the ecosystems they live in. This kills out animals that live there, or drive them out.

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1. Adding other plants to a vineyard will make things grow better
2. Red earthworms can filter water, water that contains the food they normally eat

This business is not hoping to just reduce the negatives, but make more positives along the way too.

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Asian Jumping worms can be identified by its distinctive flat tan band it has. As the name suggests, the worm wiggles and jumps when threatened.

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1. Earthworms can grow as little as half an inch, or as big as 10 feet
2. In most habitats earthworms are necessary for getting oxygen through to the earth, but in some habitats invasive species of worms are actually bad for the climate
Overall worms can be pretty big creatures, and can either help a habitat or harm a habitat.

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1. Red worms and microbes remove potential contaminants from wastewater, making the water usable again
2. Worm castings enhance compost piles and help enrich soil

Earthworms can do more than people think, and what they can do can have a huge impact and be extremely beneficial to humans.

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1. Earthworms can consume metals and when it is excreted back into the soil it allows plants to take them in which they cannot do if they don't pass through a worm.
2. Earthworms produce metallothinein which can wrap around metals.

Earthworms are crucial in cleaning the enviorment especially with the pollution in the soil.

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1. You can tell an Earthworms heath by looking at the color of it.
2. Earthworms break down the metals in the soil and make it easier for plants to consume.

3. Earthworms help out plant life by making the soil fertile.

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1. There is a specific worm that can jump when startled.
2. There is something called litter, which the forest needs but the jumpers eat it very quickly.

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1. Imported to break up clay to make it easier to gather and then spread.

2. when threatened they just wrigle around and can jump of the ground.

3. Asian jumpers are invading 20 states and consuming more leaf litter than normal earthworms. This is an issue because some plants need the litter to grow. Opening up the forests to other invasive species.

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1.) Earthworms help plants decontaminate soil.
2.) Metals consumed by earthworms were slightly different than the previous.
3.) Earthworms have evolved to where they can ingest hard metals like copper and zinc.

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10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms

Earthworms are very common in most backyards, so there are things that should be known.

1. All earthworms are both male and female, producing both sperm and eggs.
2. Earthworms lack lungs and other specialized respiratory organs, so they breathe through their skin.

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1. A species of red earthworms can remove 99% of of contaminants from wastewater for places that use machines and chemicals to filtrate the water
2. Worm castings can enhance compost piles to fertilize crops

Earthworms help agriculture become more natural. They help provide clean water for the plants and compost so there is no need for chemicals. They're a big part of regenerative agriculture.

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1. Fetzer are restoring their wastewater 85% more efficiently than the usual way by just using worms.
2. They are harnessing the digestive power of worms and microbes to be able to remove up to 99% of contaminants from their water in a short span of only 4 hours.
By using earthworms Fetzer is able to improve their water using a different way.

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1. Earthworms change color depending on the type and amount of metal they consume.
2. The diamond light source is the most advanced synchroton in the UK.
Earthworms are able to consume and excrete metals, making it easier for plants to ingest them, which cleans the soil.

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10 Interesting Facts about Earthworms
1. There are around 6,000 species of earthworms worldwide.
2. Baby worms emerge from the eggs tiny but fully formed, and they reach full size within a year.

Worm movements loosen the soil and seem to have a positive affect on ecosystems, but their impacts could be negative overall.

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10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms                                       1: There are about 6,000 different species of earthworms  2: They lack lungs so they breathe through their skin              Takeaway: There are many different species of earthworms and even though they are seen as boring, they are actually kind of unique.

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1.The Asian Jumping Worm  is a worm that ACTUALLY JUMPS.

2. These worms aren't rare and can be found in 20 states (mostly in the east coast and midwest)

These worms are eating so much leaf litter that it could possibly be damaging our ecosystem because of the harm it's doing to plants.

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10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms - Ecowatch
Interesting Facts
1. Earthworms breathe through their skin
2. Earthworms can grow up to nearly 10 feet in some species

Takeaway: There are many species of earthworms which all live in different environments and have different adaptations, but they have different effects on our ecosystem.

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Earthworms: Can these gardeners' friends actually become foes
1. One interesting fact is that in the 1980's large numbers of jumping worms were imported from Asia to Alabama to help farmers break soil.
2. Another interesting fact is that    Asian jumping worms can be found in 20 states along the East Coast and in the Midwest.

The big idea is that the current concentration of Asian jumping worms has a negative impact on the environment. They are eating too much leaf litter. Less trees are able to grow and the ground has less protection.

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10 Interesting Facts about Earthworms - EcoWatch
1a. They can range anywhere from less than half an inch, to 10 feet long.
1b. Earthworm egg cases look like tiny lemons
2. The Big Idea is that the earthworms seem so simple and boring, who knew they're unique and interesting? Plus they're kinda cool If you think about it.

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Earthworms: Can these gardeners' friends actually become fores?
1. sometimes Asian jumping worms congregate in large groups.
2. When Earthworms burrow into the ground, they leave holes which is good for plants and the nutrients of the poop helps fertilize the soil.
The big idea is that there are too many Asian jumping worms , this is bad because they eat too much and too fast which makes it harder for other plants to grow.

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Earthworms do double-duty at Fetzer Vineyards

- Fetzer Vineyards are now restoring their waste water 85% more efficiently when using earthworms, than doing it the natural way
- By using this new system, earthworms are removing up to 99% of contaminants at the vineyard.

Takeaway: Fetzer Vineyards have been practicing regenerative agriculture for years, and have recently added the strategy of using earthworms to remove the contaminants of their wastewater for the company and the environment.

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Earth worms can live up to 8 years and breathe through their skin
Worms are interesting

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1.  Earthworms breathe through their skin.
2. Each earthworm is both male and female producing both eggs and sperm.
Earthworms can help the but they can also hurt it.

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Soil Remediation Effort Helped By Worms
Earthworms can help plants decontaminate polluted soil. They digest the soil and it makes it easier for the plants  to ingest the metals and absorb it into their tissues.
2 Interesting facts:
-The worms colour will change depending on the type and amount they have consumed
-Earthworms produce metallothinein which is a protein that wraps around the metal

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1. Earthworms may be helping plants decontaminate soil that is heavily polluted by metals.
2. For scientists this discovery is huge, because now they are looking at a different way to tackle polluted soils.
Overall earthworms are true "21st century warriors."

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Earthworms: Can these gardeners' friends actually become foes?
1. When worms create holes in soil to make it better for farming, they leave behind nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in their feces.
2. Asian jumping worms ate 95% of the debris in the soil in an experiment, where a control group with no worms only lost 34%.
Asian jumping worms were brought to America to make tough soil good for farming, but now they are becoming an invasive species. These worms eat too much of the soil, and leave behind too many nutrients, making plants unhealthy, and it damages the soil underneath.

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Two interesting facts
One takeaway (big idea)