Many people wonder when looking at their garden or park: Is that a blackbird or a thrush? The surprising answer: There’s no ...

Long, slimy, wiggly and ready to eat your garbage. Welcome to worm composting. Vermiculture, the formal term for worm composting, is the process of using worms and worm castings (poop) to turn waste ...

Triops are so old that they are considered living fossils and will eat anything possible, including earthworms.

Dirt is all around us. Under our feet. What we live on. What we build our houses and roads on. Dirt is just … there, something we don’t pay much attention to unless we’re cleaning up a mess somebody ...

Ruiz tells PEOPLE she couldn't eat one food for a year after eating so much of it on the island Jaime Ruiz knows about food, or rather, the lack of it. As a contestant on season 44 of Survivor, Ruiz ...

Fleas are a year-round problem in the South, both indoors and out. “They’re carried into your yard by wildlife such as squirrels, raccoons, opossums, mice, and deer,” says Eric Benson, PhD, professor ...

In an office on Jefferson Street, Bartelt Engineering’s staff is designing green solutions to treat winery wastewater, using thousands of wriggling worms. The wastewater treatment systems they are ...

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Survival involves safety, shelter, water, and food. In most situations, they must be focused on in that order. Despite food being down the line in terms of needs, it is high on the list when it comes ...

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