Re: Earthworms?????

Posted by msb on March 02, 2006 at 19:13:05 from (12.210.167.23):

In Reply to: Re: Earthworms????? posted by JMS/MN on March 02, 2006 at 12:17:11:

Since nightcrawlers only feed at night almost none are killed by either the knife or the ammonia ,itself.The night crawlers burrow up to six feet deep and spend the daytime deep in their borrows.They take crop residue into their burrows where they feed on it.
Dr Eilene Klidavo (sp?) of Purdue has done extensive research on earthworms and is considered the foremost expert on earthworns and their activities.She says that in a good no till enviornment earthworms(nightcrawlers ,and red and gray worms) can create 186,000 miles of tunnels per acre.Thats a lot of internal drainage.The nightcrawler burrows are vertical and the red and gray worm burrows are horizontal. Tillage destroys nightcrawlers by ripping up the nightcrawler middens and burrows, covering up the residue(food) and as a result millions and millions of nightcrawlers simply starve to death every year.

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