Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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The Australian Vermiculture and Giant Worms Take the rain

Today I read an email from a forum about the giant Australian earthworm and its possible applications in vermiculture. Since I have not had much to write lately, I aventaré a roll on this species. The first half I shot him the Australians.

According to San Google, called "the giant earthworm Gippsland" (Giant Gippsland Earthworm ). It seems the movie name, right? The scientific name is Megascolides Australis and can reach up to 2 meters, but due to the nature of the worms, these measures are relative.

The standard size is 80cm (compare it to 10 of California), so it is a Gigantona and Andrei E. foetida and hair look like next to it. It is considered a vulnerable species and is found only in a small area of \u200b\u200bBass River Valley of South Gippsland (hence the name).

Although there are reports about 100 years ago, not much is known about its biology. The buds are 4 to 8 inches and the little girls seem sausages. That compared with worms from California that just seen.

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entertaining, it help to the worm?

If a ball of worms being short and skinny are fanned a trash heap laughing, then imagine one of these. Surely you would fail and throw garbage. However, even though it sounds nice, does not work with the following:

is an earthworm . The E. Andrei foetida earthworms are "composting", used to living and feeding on decaying organic matter. Earthworms are, well ... ground. They live in tunnels that burrow and feed on them. You require a good size and depth (2 meters for the M. Australis) and recycle these materials which are more decomposed than what you eat the worm from California. According to an Australian (the worm is well advanced in Australia), the perfect food for earthworms is the humus of califoniana. That things, right?

is very large. Apart from that they can not easily consume what we get in the kitchen, the worm is enormous for traditional Vermiculture, even for outdoor mass. As it digs itself deeper, it is safer to peel all about getting bored. If we do not like amounts to both the food given to them, because I do not think many worms are after a couple of days.


This does not mean they do not serve, with similar tunelsotes can greatly improve the composition of the soil, removing much more than their tiny cousins, best drain the land and fertilize the soil.

would not hurt to try, if you have a wet spot, near a dam or water source, equal and you fix the ground, though, as foreign species, it is likely that the predators around here is very fast and eat it easy.

The problem is getting them. Is anyone going to go to Australia? In order to bring about, say ...