2006-06-15 01:44:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Dead vegetation. They excrete a great fertilizer for soil and help to turn your compost into useable fertilizer for your garden. By burrowing in your garden they also provide air pockets and growing room for your roots.
They come out in the rain to escape drowning. This is a great time to collect them for fishing or adding to your compost heap.
Did you know that earthworms are hermaphrodites. They produce eggs and can fertilize eggs but not their own. They secrete a mucous to join two of them together side by side but tail to head and then they mate.
2006-06-21 12:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dellajoy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The soil & nutrients in it. The worms come out because they dont want to drown in the overflow of rain.
2006-06-15 08:47:57 · answer #2 · answered by Clara Isabella 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They eat all the good stuff in the soil, like the nutrients. Then the waste comes out the back.
2006-06-15 08:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by antilaughingcow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
soil
2006-06-15 13:42:37 · answer #4 · answered by ƒallen ångel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dirt
2006-06-15 08:48:06 · answer #5 · answered by UCSC Slugmaster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
compost, dead roots, leaves, etc. Dirt is what they leave behind.
2006-06-15 08:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by AlongthePemi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋