Sentence examples for dew worm from inspiring English sources
Thou hast done more good for mankind than all the dogs ever whelped," Marjorie Maude Falstaff wrote in her touching memoir, "My Life with Bert the Wonder Dew Worm".
Let's get it straight: the butt end of 2013‑14 came with fewer twists and turns than a dead dew-worm.
Considering the important regulatory role of L. terrestris in many ecosystem processes, this can have significant corollaries in dew-worm impacts on the environment.
A prime example is the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris L. (the dew-worm), an ecosystem engineer that emerges nocturnally on the soil surface.
We studied the soil community and habitat consequences of introducing a deep-burrowing, sedentary life-style earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris (dew-worm) into arable zero-till clay.
Under the experimental conditions light condition was the dominant environmental factor controlling surface activity, but elevated night-time air temperature and humidity also encouraged dew-worm emergence without discernible differences among geographical origins.
The native dew-worms were generally the most active under ambient light.
The differences in behaviour were, however, significant mainly between native and UK dew-worms.
Our results show, that in boreal summer, the high level of night illumination strongly limits soil-surface activity of dew-worms.
