James Owen
for National Geographic News
Newly evolved “superworms” that feast on toxic waste could help cleanse polluted industrial land, a new study says.
These hardcore heavy metal fans, unearthed at disused mining sites in England and Wales, devour lead, zinc, arsenic, and copper.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081007-super-worms.html
I found this on Garden Simply the other day. Check out the date…
“Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain or grass.
- The Rev. Gilbert White of Selborne, 1777
They knew, even then, they knew..
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