Under Your Feet

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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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