This is my information report about worms. I wrote it as part of my WIT about invertebrates.
Do Earthworms Have Eyes?
Written by Jay-Dee Lea :)
Yes, earthworms have eyes, worms also don’t have a backbone, worms have a simple mind. One of the most familiar of them, the sort you may see in your garden, is commonly known as the night crawler (it typically surfaces after dark), the earthworm.
Habitats
Earthworms like to live in a nice moist compost, like the compost in your garden. The soil that they live in is wet soil because worms like the damp. Worms like this live in the Frankley Bush environment and like to live in wet soil underground.
Diet
Worms are BIG eaters. Worms can consume their own body weight in soil and dead plants in one day. They also excrete (Means of a living organism or cell) equivalent to their own body weight daily in what is known as ‘castings’. (You may have seen castings in your garden, they look like a long,slimy and they spread germs
Predators
The earthworms predators are a centipede and and the biggest snail in the world and a bird. It takes about 0.42 min and 42 seconds for an centipede to eat an earthworm.
Worms are an important part of our bush environment. If you ask a
Question why they are important it is because they help grow your garden.
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