Discovering the world around me.
Imagine that you had 50 pairs of legs. Not two legs like a human, not four legs like a dog, or six legs like an insect, and not eight legs like a spider, but one hundred. When you move, a ripple runs along them, propelling you forward in search of the same things all creatures […]
Continue reading Recyclers: Millipedes
Last summer, we decided to build a new shop. That meant cleaning out a bunch of old junk in the fence row and digging down to make a foundation. in the process, we disturbed legions of night crawlers (Lumbricus terrestris). They had made their homes in and around all the debris that had been dumped […]
Continue reading Intestines of the Earth: Night Crawlers