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Flat-tailed Night Crawler

Lumbricus terrestris

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Field Notes

Description:

The Flat-tailed Night Crawler (Earthworm) is long, segmented, soft-bodies animal (invertebrates), with no legs. In the opinion of Charles Darwin, the earthworm may have played a more important role on this planet than any other animal. Ubiquitous in moist soil, they aerate it with their burrows and fertilize it with their castings

Habitat:

Moist soil

Notes:

After a hard rain, this one came out of the soil.

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PublishedJune 26, 2014

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