Common Earthworm Range
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Type: Invertebrate Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 6 years Size: Up to 14 in (35 cm) Weight: Up to 0.39 oz (11.2 g) Did you know?
Common Earthworm
The Common Earthworm - this worm is the one you are most likely to see in your garden, in fields, farms and park soils.
Brandling Worms ...
The common earthworm is an abundant species, which has an important role in the aeration and fertilisation of soil (3).
You may know this common earthworm species by its other name: nightcrawler.
Worms are the ultimate earth movers and shakers. Earthworms in one acre of soil can break down over 10 tons of organic material and transfer it to the surface!
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Lumbricus rubellus (Common Earthworm)
Lumbricus terrestris (Common Earthworm)
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Hirudo medicinalis (Medicinal leech) ...
Common earthworm
Earthworms help to fertilise the soil by bringing nutrients closer to the surface.
Common earwig
Despite its name and threatening appearance, the common earwig is a harmless and interesting creature.
The external divisions, which may be seen in the common earthworm, correspond to the internal divisions. The annelid body consists of a head region; a trunk, made up of metameres; and an unsegmented terminal region called the pygidium.
The common earthworm (for example, the genus Lumbricus) and the worms in the genus Amphitrite are both in the Phylum Annelida (segmented worms).
 See also: Earthworm, Burro, Shell, Diver, Worm
  
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