Let’s Introduce Our Colleagues
Worms, have been challenging against life for millions of years. They are one of the rarest animals in the world that have survived since the creation world until today. Their biggest advantage is that they have a strong immune system.
The main source of this advantage is the body fluid (Coelom Fluid) that protect them that is in their digestive system. They secrete Coelom so as not to get sick and protected by harmful bacteria’s. There are large numbers of nitrogen-fixing bacteria’s that carry microorganisms and natural growth hormones in their digestive system that will create antibiotic effects.
Let’s know these amazing creatures closer…
- Californian Red Worm is an earthworm, one of 8 species of the Lumbricidae family, in the annelid worm’s class. It is a type of worm named Eisenia Foetida, bred as a worm culture in California.
- Their length between 2.5cm and 10.5cm, thickness changes between 0.5cm and 0.75cm. Adult worms weigh between 0.24gr and 1.4gr. They have the capacity to produce manure half of their weight.
- Minimum temperature is 0°C for them to survive. Optimal temperature between 20 and 30°C for breeding and producing manure.
- They are dark red.
- They breathe thanks to their skin.
- They consume approximately 1gr formula daily.
- They do not like sunlight. They die when they subject to direct sunlight.
- They may live approximately 5 years.
- Each worm lays average 1500 egg (cocoon) per year.
- Worms are bisexuals (Hermaphrodite).
- 1000 worms produce average ½ kg of manure per day.
- They do not have any skeleton, their existence liquids support and shape them.
- At the anterior side of their abdomen, there are both female and male genitals.
- Worms fed with formulas called “compost” that is formed by processing, passing through a separator and fermenting straw, grass, vegetable waste, sawdust, paper, carton and feces.
- When baby worms come out of cocoon they weigh 1mg. They reach sexual maturity after 9-10 weeks after birth. The duration of making cocoon (breeding) occur between 2,5 and 3 months.
- Worms may lay average 1500 cocoon per year. Adult 100 worms by breeding between 90 and 120 days, may increase their population 20-28 times more. As a result of this rise, it has been observed that there are 2800 adult, 5400 young (new) and 9000 cocoon.
- While worms move through the soil, they also play a very crucial role in the upheaving of the land. Worms digest their own weight of formula throughout the day. In the meantime, they enrich the soil about organic matters as they fed with the organic matters (vegetable and animal cells, soil bacteria, fungi etc.) that scattered around the soil.
- The structures of worms alike the pipe-in-pipe. The outer pipe forms the skin covering the body, while the inner pipe forms the digestive system. The digested and defecated food is in the form of small granular coprolites. Coprolites regulate the structure of soil, aerate, improve its water retention value and contain humic that increase the resistance to mechanical stress and fertility of the soil.
- The digestive system of worms, prevents the increase in the amount of the carbon dioxide and water quantity in the soil, eliminates the dead animal and vegetable cells.
- The digestive system of worms is a constant source of renewal of fresh microorganisms in the soil microflora.
- When they excrete 90% of the organic waste that they have fed, this manure contains 5 times more Nitrogen, Potassium, 7 times more Phosphorus and 2 times more Calcium.
- As worms do not have gills and lungs, they breathe thanks to their skins.