Researchers say Australia is in a unique position to prepare native species for the impacts of the Varroa destructor—a mite ...

In wet forests of southeastern Australia, superb lyrebirds engage in extraordinary behaviour – tilling the soil to create ...

The south Gippsland organic beef and lamb farmer is talking about a species of annelid worm called the giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis). It earns the name "giant" because an ...

Australia is richly endowed with earthworm biodiversity, but of the 750 or so named species of earthworm in Australia, very few have been found in arid environments. The Broken Hill earthworm, a new ...

McCoy in 1879, and named Megascolides australis. It belongs to a peculiar Australian group, of which five species are now known. Mr. Spencer gives us the following general account of its habits:— ...

Earthworms have long been associated with healthy, productive soils. In his 1881 book entitled. "The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms," the great biologist Charles Darwin ...

DESCRIPTION: The giant Palouse earthworm can reach three feet or more in length, has light-pink skin, and emits a unique, sweet fragrance. HABITAT: This species inhabits permanent or semipermanent ...

You may never have heard of the Terriswalkeris terraereginae, a giant blue earthworm living deep in the moist soils of tropical north Queensland, but it’s the prettiest worm you’ll ever see.