How Do I Farm European Nightcrawlers?. The European nightcrawler's scientific name is Eisenia hortensis, but it also goes by blue worm, super red and giant redworm, among others. These worms can ...

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Essays on Non-virtual Reality: European earthworms found in Midwest are not native and now Asian varieties are spreading into the area.

But the European nightcrawlers that Donelson raises are much more hardy. "Our European nightcrawlers will withstand 100-degree weather," he said.

Often feared, but fascinating up close — the European hornet calmly drinks sweet oak sap. Discover this peaceful side of a powerful forest insect, captured in detail among bark and sunlight.

Nightcrawlers also feed on thatch, a layer of live and dead plant material that can accumulate at the soil surface and reduce the penetration of water and fertilizer.

Also known as snake worms, these writhing wrigglers turn forest leaf litter into bare ground, changing soil composition and ecosystems as they go.

Set up at least one suet feeding station that uses a plastic or powder coated wire cage to exclude mockingbirds, starlings and other aggressive birds with big appetites.