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Julie Monahan gets her hands dirty counting earthworms in her Seattle garden. — Julie Monahan, Good Housekeeping, "10 Easy Soil Tests," 9 Sep. 2015 In a 2012 video, below, the children can be heard giggling as Jen hands Jeremiah an earthworm. — Glamour, "Broken Harts, Episode 2: 'If Not Us, Who?'," 11 Dec. 2018 The nuns feed organic earthworms to the amphibians and use a nearby well to change their water regularly. — National Geographic, "Nuns Resurrect Endangered Salamanders in First-of-its-Kind Conservation Effort," 19 June 2018 An earthworm poked up its head, then retreated—a Hulu subscriber, no doubt. — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, "Aunt Lydia’s Garden Karma," 18 June 2018 Margie Stuchlak of Dyer watched closely as her daughter Ella, 5 1/2, focused on a wiggling earthworm under a microscope. — Sue Ellen Ross, Post-Tribune, "Challenger Learning Center opens doors for kids to explore to the cosmos," 25 May 2018 In Davie a few of the Rolling Hills sets were turned into kindling and the first floor of the motel where production offices were set up had been flooded, leaving a plague of earthworms wriggling in the carpets. — Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, "Inside the Caddyshack Scene That Squashed the Bill Murray-Chevy Chase Beef," 17 Apr. 2018 Even important creatures like earthworms are being damaged by neonics, a four-year investigation by the task force found. — National Geographic, "Why Europe's Insecticide Ban Is Big News for Bees," 27 Apr. 2018 Though there's little known about the effect on plants or on the wider food chain, studies have shown that earthworms exposed to microplastics in soil have increased gut inflammation, slower growth and higher mortality. — Mark Tutton, CNN, "It's not just the oceans: Microplastic pollution is all around us," 22 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'earthworm.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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