When most hear the word worm unpleasant things come to mind. “Gross”, “dirty”, “decaying”, “disease”, “rotten”, are a few. And then there is the whole parasite thing. But then there are those who like them. Gardeners, ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
People enjoy animals. Zoos and wildlife parks are popular tourist destinations and animal programs are popular on television. It is usually the larger predator animals that get our attention. Sharks, panthers, and bears are popular. ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Wildlife
I bet that for most of you, this is not only a worm you have never seen – it is a worm you have never heard of before. I learned about them first in college, which was almost 50 years ago, and have never seen one. But, other than the earthworm, ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural ResourcesRoundworms differ from flatworms in that… well… they are round. You might recall from Part 1 of this series that flatworms were flat which helps with exchange of materials inside and out of the body. Flatworms were acoelomates – they ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County held its first “Learn to Build a Worm Bin” workshop as part of Sarasota County strategic plan initiative in 2022. At the workshop, participants had the opportunity to build a worm bin that they could take ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Natural Resources![a hand holds dark, rich compost with worms. [credit: uf/ifas, camila guillen]](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2023/07/2022_Waste_factsheetVermicompostWorms01_ifasGuillenCamila_CROP1338x357TINY.png)
UF/IFAS Extension agents in Sarasota and Leon counties have teamed up on a unique approach to help meet a state mandate to ramp up recycling and cut waste heading to the landfill: home vermicomposting. Molly Jameson, of Leon County, and Randall ... READ MORE
Category: Work & Life![Food scraps in a compost pile. {CREDIT: Camila Guillen, UF/IFAS]](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2021/04/2021_Waste_blogFoodWaste01_ifasCROP1338x357TINY.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a way of classifying food waste in the United States into three categories: Excessive Expensive Environmentally Harmful Food waste is excessive because nearly 40 percent of all the food produced ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Work & LifeIn the final segment of this 3 part series on worms we will discuss the largest, most commonly encountered members of the worm world… the Annelids. Neredia are one of the more common polychaete worms.Photo: University of California Berkley ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Pests & DiseaseThe round body of a microscopic nematode.Photo: University of Nebraska at Lincoln In the first article of this series we discussed the how unpleasant the subject of worms were but how beneficial many species are to our environment. We highlighted ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, WildlifeI am afraid worms are not the most pleasant topic to write about but few people know much about them. I was once told when I was a student that if you wanted to become known as a scientist study worms, no one else is. When we hear the ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife