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Nature Nearby: Of worms and men

BY FRED SEITZ — Fascinating for gardeners, fishermen, Aristotle, Darwin and Edgar Allan Poe, the earthworm, an unobtrusive invertebrate, is one of our most helpful partners in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately, the term worm has been applied to everything from medieval dragons to intestinal parasites to computer viruses. This must be truly stigmatizing for the hard-working earthworm, […]

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