A few posts ago I mentioned that there were a lot of varieties of worms, from glow in the dark to giants. Okay, here’s proof. This is an earthworm in Ecuador. At first glance it looks like a snake, but upon closer inspection it’s obviously a worm.

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Starbucks gave us worms. Indirectly. What Starbucks actually gave us was used coffee grounds, and putting used coffee grounds in the soil is an excellent way of building up your worm population

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People just don’t appreciate worms the way they should. Worms are glorious creatures. And life as we know it would be very different without them. Darwin called them the “ploughs of the earth”, and some scientists believe that earthworms are responsible for much of the rich topsoil of the U.S. and the world.

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