If you go down to the woods today, you might see a GIANT EARTHWORM! 🪱

In New Zealand it’s time for the second round of the global soil biodiversity monitoring project ‘SoilBON’, and some incredible native earthworms turned up during fieldwork yesterday!

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#Earthworm #LivesMatter 🪱💗
I didn't want this earthworm to be stepped on. Moved to safer space 💚

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My slightly late offering for day ten of #invertober (common earthworm) 🪱

Did you know earthworms have a special lip-like first head segment called a prostomium (meaning 'before the mouth')? They use it to sense and manipulate food, and move through soil!

#SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Entomology #Earthworm #SoilEcology #Soil #Nature

Point of views - some are seeing those, some are not 😊

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Did someone bury a tiny lemon?

Nope, this is an earthworm cocoon!

After mating, both earthworms will produce a cocoon like this (they're hermaphrodites), containing a fertilised egg. Inside, a baby earthworm will grow, before hatching out the end like a tiny pink noodle. Inside the cocoons, wormlings are protected from drought, flooding and low oxygen conditions, and will hatch when conditions are good again!

#Soil #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #Earthworm #Macrophotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Entomology