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2. Invasive earthworms of North America - Wikipedia

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   Earthworms are shifting their ranges northwards into forests between 45° and 69° latitude in North America that have lacked native earthworms since the last ice age. [3] Of the 182 taxa of earthworms found in the United States and Canada, 60 (33%) are introduced species, these earthworm species are primarily from Europe and Asia.

3. Earthworms as invasive species - Wikipedia

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   Approximately 182 earthworm taxa in twelve families are reported from the United States and Canada, of which sixty (about 33%) are introduced. [4] Only two genera of lumbricid earthworms are indigenous to North America while introduced genera have spread to areas without any native species, especially in the north where forest ecosystems rely on a large amount of undecayed leaf matter.

4. Megascolecidae - Wikipedia

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   Invasive earthworms can have a significant impact causing changes in soil profiles, nutrient and organic matter content and other soil organisms or plant communities. In most cases the disturbed areas includes agricultural systems or previously areas that are lacking of earthworms would see the biggest impact of the invasive earthworms. [ 28 ]

5. Elida Students Experiment with Earthworms - AOL

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6. Earthworm - Wikipedia

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   Large numbers of chemoreceptors concentrate near its mouth. Circumferential and longitudinal muscles edging each segment let the worm move. Similar sets of muscles line the gut tube, and their actions propel digested food toward the worm's anus. [8] Earthworms are hermaphrodites: each worm carries male and female reproductive organs and genital ...

7. Woman warns others after finding live worms 'wriggling ... - AOL

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   A Chula Vista, California, woman is warning others after she found three live worms inside the salmon she bought at Costco last week. The woman, identified only as Sylvia, told KGTV that she ...