Food Chain

Worms Can Eat Your Garbage!

Then Make Food for Plants

Herman’s History

Herman’s Ancestors came over on with the first European Settlers

Herman’s Body

Worm Have Hair to Grip

Worms Have Mouths to Eat

Worms Have a Lot of Heart!

How Worms Move

•I squeeze some muscles to make myself long•Then I grip with my little hairs•And use other muscles to pull my behind along

Worm Breath Through Their Skin!

•Worms do not have lungs but I breathe through my skin.•I take in oxygen through my skin and it goes right into my bloodstream. •My skin must stay wet in order for me to breath, but if I am in too much water I will drown.

Worms Like the Dark

•I can tell the difference between light and dark . . . pretty good for someone who does not have eyes.•I have cells in the front part of my body that are sensitive to light.

Worms Eat Without Teeth!

•As I eat my food some grains of sand and soil get into my gizzard.•The sand and soil grind the food into tiny pieces

Worm Menu

•Meat brings dogs and maggots.

•Lemon and Oranges make Herman sick

•Herman has to suck his food – make it soft and chopped up

Worm are Good for the Garden•Worms help to increase

the amount of air and water that gets into the soil.

• They break down organic matter, like leaves and grass into things that plants can use.

•When they eat, they leave behind castings that are a very valuable type of fertilizer.

Worm Composting•The worms are kept in a bin with shredded wet paper.

•You feed them food waste. •They digest the waste and bedding then make worm poo

•After a few months, the poo combined with the well-decomposed bedding, becomes garden food

Make a Worm Bin

To start you'll need four things: 1. A bin for your worms2. Supply of biodegradable bedding

– newspaper3. Supply of food waste4. Worms, of course.

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/compost2.htm

The Posteria

Our Worm Bin