Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
tOrder: Haplotaxida
Suborder: Lumbricina
Families: 18
Number of Hearts: 9
Size: Up to 14 in (35 cm)
Weight: Up to 11.2 g (0.39 oz)
Natural Habitat: Throughout the world
Diet: Herbivorous
Lumbricus terrestris
Interesting & Amazing facts about Earthworms
- Earthworms can survive only in moist soil. However, too much moisture is also not good for them.
- Rototilling of the soil can be harmful to earthworms.
- Earthworms are hermaphrodites i.e. a single individual has both female and male organs.
- An earthworm can replace or replicate lost segments. However, the extent of this ability depends upon the species as well as the amount of damage.
- Even though earthworms are hermaphrodites, they need to mate with another worm to produce offspring.
- Earthworms do not have eyes, but are extremely light sensitive.
- An earthworm can consume as much as one third of its body weight in a single day.
- Earthworms usually come out of the dirt after excessive rain storms, since the soil becomes too moist for them to survive.
- Earthworms can be found in almost every type of soil. At the same time, their number greatly increases with the improvement in the health of the soil.
- An earthworm does not have lungs. Rather, it breathes through its skin.
- There are basically four types of earthworms - Nightcrawlers, Garden Worms, Manure Worms and Red Worms.
- After digestion, earthworms produce excrement that is about the same size as a pin head.
- In times of drought, an earthworm can dig deep into its burrow, which can be as deep as six feet.
- Entire body covered with chemoreceptors (taste receptors).
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