Great Lakes Worm Watch

09/02/2021

Worm Watch is working on documenting the distribution of Jumping Worms in Minnesota. You can help through participating in our jumping worm BioBlitz that is taking place September 1st - October 31st. Learn more at our Jumping Worm Project Website

Jumping Worm Bioblitz Sept-Oct, 2021 Calling all Worm Rangers, researchers NEED YOUR HELP documenting jumping worms across the state. We are asking you to look around your yard, gardens, mulched and composted areas and tell us what you find or do not find. INTERESTED IN BECOMING A HOST SITE for this...

08/24/2020

These invasive pests, which ravage the soil and damage plant life, are easiest to spot now, in their adult form. But what to do if you see them?

08/22/2020

11/13/2018

Scientists found that the poop-balls produced by invasive Asian jumping worms are packed with nutrients that can’t be easily accessed by plants native to the Midwest US.

08/31/2018

Invasive earthworm species discovered in Dubuque and Muscatine counties

04/24/2018

Researchers say that when it comes to invasive earthworms, a particularly nasty annelid species poses a growing threat to a large chunk of New England’s forest ecosystem, including sugar maples.Crazy snake worms, an Asian invasive prized by fishermen...

01/26/2018

When researchers found invasive Asian jumping worms at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum in 2013, they spotted an opportunity to follow the invaders, and their effects, from the beginning.