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WONDERFUL
WORMS
They spend their lives hidden from sight,
unless you know where to look. Lift the
lid of a compost bin to find stripy tiger
worms, dig a hole to see pink, green,
and even yellow-tailed earthworms, and
at the beach look out for wriggly piles of
sand made by burrowing sandworms.
Earthworms mix the
different soil layers together.
This spreads out organic
(living or once-living) matter
and releases nutrients for
soil animals to eat.
Common earthworms
are pencil-sized
when fully grown.
Tiger worms eat
leaves and scraps of
fruit and vegetables.
Tiger worms have a stripy
body and no teeth. They have
powerful lip muscles and
suck food into their mouth.
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