All earthworms form symbiotic relationships with each other and form colonies with on another. These are not the only 3 worms that we use. This is a general concept of creating New Earth, by taking something as simple as azolla, and allowing worms to process it into pure new earth for you. The idea is to integrate all three worms into your systems so they start to build their own culture and they can come and go as they like and create a healthy ecosystem. This is an important part of our systems because they process different components for total decomposition. The three worms can share space with one another. Mycelium also helps build the web for plants and trees to interact with each other. The big worms (fetida) bring down the leaf litter and deposit it in tunnels, increasing mycelium, which the worms also eat. It brings this material up to the surface and the leaf dwellers (Perionyx excavatus) eat that and deposit it along the surface, creating more soil beneath the entire leaf litter. The subterranean worm (Amynthus gracilus) comes up and deposits mineral material from deep in subterranean holes as far as 15 feet down. It will migrate out of the bin or die within it, but it does not seem to have the great ability to migrate back into the bin. The fetida also eats the castings of the other two worms. Therefore you have to constantly change their bedding. It’s the most common worm that’s raised in bins, but it doesn’t really have the habit of being able to migrate out once it’s environment becomes toxic from too much of it’s own excrement. It’s favorite food is manure, and it’s role in Nature is to eat the manure that animals deposit on the surface. MANURE WORM | The third worm is known as Eisenia fetida, or red worm. Worms promote certain beneficial molds underneath the soil to help process rock in the soil, and minerals and such. The worms trade-off what each other eats. It also decomposes the excrement from the bigger worms, meaning what’s left on the surface in the form of castings. Perionyx excavatus actually processes all the leaves that fall off the tree. It’s known as a leaf litter worm and spends it’s life in the top 1 to 2 feet of the soil. It can live in a bin, process large amounts of food and then be able to migrate out when it gets too toxic from its own excrement. It’s common name is the Indian Blue worm, but in Hawaii is called the Waimanolo Blue. MID LEVEL WORM | The second worm is a red worm named the perionyx excavatus. It has the ability to go deep and move tons of material, as well as inundate the soil below with its gut bacteria. The first one is a big, deep-dwelling, subterranean worm, known as Amynthus Gracilus, or a Georgia jumper. SUBTERRANEAN WORM | There are three worms that we use in our systems in Hawaii. Additionally they provide aeration for the penetration of oxygen into the earth, and also the ability for soil to absorb water from the rain into the ground rather than rapid run off, which causes soil erosion. The organic matter they deposit within their tunnels helps to break down rocks and minerals from deep in the subsoils and bring them to the surface as living soil. Then they bring the surface material down and deposit it inside the holes where they are taking previously unavailable minerals and rock dust, totally moving and rotating the surface of the earth. They bring minerals to the surface and eat the droppings of leaf litter worms along with several other fungi and molds and organic materials on the surface. They bring material up from deep in their tunnels and use grit inside their gizzards to break down rocks and other materials in the soil.
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