Earthworms bring down and consume organic matter such as leaf litter and their waste (worm castings) provides the nutrients in soil. The relative acidity/alkalinity of the soil plays a big part in ...

Worms can live for up to 10 years. Worms eat their own weight in organic waste, soil and minerals and excrete their own weight in castings daily, which makes compost and enriches the soil.

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5. The castings (worm excrement) produced by the worms are harvested in a turn-filter, separating the worms from the castings. Worms can be used for bait or placed back in the cycle again.

Nightcrawlers construct middens over the mouth of their burrows. Middens are a mixture of plant residues and castings (worm feces) and probably serve as protection as well as a food reserve. Because ...

The Fhit protein is lost early in the development of ... and the crystal structure of the 200-kD NitFhit tetramer from worms to demonstrate that the fusion partners Nit and Fhit have a conserved ...

It is a type of composting that harnesses the digestive capabilities of specific earthworm species to break down organic ...

Mr Calder produces and sells "worm tea" — essentially worm castings, or worm poo, in liquid form. It's becoming increasingly popular with farmers who are keen to move away from using synthetic ...

Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created. Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically ...

One of the surprising findings to come out of our mutant screens for molting-defective worms was the identification of several protein kinases, NEKL-2 and NEKL-3. Protein kinases regulate the ...

This green fluorescent protein (GFP) image of a nematode highlights different subsets of neurons in different colors. The real size of a nematode is only 0.6 millimeter to 1 millimeter long.

Once confined to sportsmen and women, high-protein diets are now commonplace – with Paleo, Atkins, Zone and Dukan advocating that people eat large quantities of fish, meat, eggs, nuts and cheese ...