| Earthworm | Information
The
earthworm is the greatest living contribution to soil
fertility in the world. It is also a great source of
food for birds, turtles and other small mammals. It
even makes a great fish bait. The earthworm tunnels
and eats through soil making it into rich living earth.
It makes the earth fertile for all plant life. The earthworm
lives underground and makes complex burrows six feet
or longer. The earthworms body is two sets of muscles
and it has a mucus layer around it so that it can chew
through the toughest of dirts. The only time the earthworm
leaves its underground world is when it rains and the
ground is soaked or when it comes to the surface to
mate. Earthworms have both male and female sex organs
but it cannot fertilize itself. Earthworms mate on the
surface at night. The earthworm collects the others
sperm and stores it for later use in reproduction. The
earthworm lays a cocoon with 20 or more earthworm babies
in it and these survive until the next season.
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