Earthworm Society UK
@earthwormsoc
The ESB supports & promotes research about earthworms & their environments. Affiliated with BENHS, NBN and Buglife.
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Check out my two educational entoLEARN presentations on earthworms: Introduction to Earthworms and Earthworms for Farmers. Earthworm Society UK LNHS BRC NBN Trust Forest of Bowland National Landscape Yorkshire Dales National Park
biologicalrecording.co.uk/2023/05/12/ent…
Patrick Barkham The Guardian Chris Packham Excellent choice!🪱the #Earthworm is an amazing creature & we know that the Earthworm Society UK will be cheering loudly too!
Want to know more about them, then do check out our Guest Blog, from Keiron Derek Brown Recording Officer at the Earthworm Society UK
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buglife.org.uk/blog/the-secre…
Five new earthworm species of the mysterious family Diporodrilidae. They produce a glue like slime, they are restricted to Corsica and Sardinia, and they may have lived under the feet of the last dinosaurs rb.gy/5p565m Wormology UCM Sylvain Gérard Decaëns Thibaud Marta Novo
Mysterious mounds in the #OrinocoLlanos wetlands of Columbia and Venezuela were of unknown origin until scientists dug a little deeper. Hear the full story from Rumsaïs Blatrix. Earthworm Society UK #ecology biologicalrecording.co.uk/2023/03/25/sur…
What happens when earthworms are introduced into an ecosystem where they don’t occur naturally? Prof Katalin Szlávecz discusses the #invasive #earthworms in North America. Earthworm Society UK #invasive species biologicalrecording.co.uk/2023/03/25/inv…
Learn about how Keiron Derek Brown and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology are investigating the possibility of using AI to identify earthworms from photographs. #earthworms #AI #BiologicalRecording Buglife BENHS BRC NBN Trust NFBR AES - amentsoc.org
earthwormsoc.org.uk/earthworm-imag…
#Earthworms 🪱 3,000 species exist worldwide, 31 in the British Isles. They thrive in moist soil, consuming their body weight in organic matter daily. Discover their fascinating ecology and biology in our online course ow.ly/V39n50P7tVL
📸Keiron Derek Brown
Earthworm Society UK
Check out this great talk by Daniel F. Marchán on how #genetics are helping us understand the relationship between different species of #earthworm and where they originate from.
youtu.be/bm9vFB2DflQ
Coming soon… a Natural England provisional #conservation status assessment for UK earthworms using data from Earthworm Society UK Environment Agency UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Forest Research LNHS The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan Natural History Museum ALERC NBN Trust GBIF @ecoevo.social/@gbif Rothamsted Research
Looking for earthworms in Tees-Swale and hoping for some vice county firsts… Earthworm Society UK Hazel Brow
Different ecological categories of #earthworms contribute to #decomposition in different ways.
@FrankAshwood Emma Sherlock Soil Association SoilfaunaAtlas Soil Biodiversity SoilBiodiversityUK Buglife The Xerces Society BENHS UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology The Wildlife Trusts Earthworm Society UK Nick Baker