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Posts Tagged: worms
Don't Miss the Nematodes at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Don't miss the nematodes at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18. The daylong event, known as a "Super Science...
Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Entomology/Nematology Fall Seminars Begin Wednesday, Sept. 21
The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's series of 11 seminars for the fall season will begin Wednesday, Sept. 21 with a...
Cornroot worms will be discussed at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the fall season. Speaker is assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. (Photo of cornfield courtesy of Wikipedia)
Makedonka Mitreva and the World of Parasitic Worms, Poverty and Solutions
You'll enter the world of parasitic worms, poverty and solutions when you listen to the virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of...
The website of Makedonka Mitreva, professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
These Microscopic Parasitic Nematodes or Round Worms Spit Venom
Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with undetected microscopic parasitic nematodes, or round worms?...
A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)
Turn food and garden waste into rich fertilizer with worms
UC Master Gardeners in Stanislaus County presented an all-natural, sustainable solution to disposing garden and food waste during a session for the community on worm composting, reported John Holland in the Modesto Bee.
All it takes is an 18-inch deep bin, equipped for drainage, and a supply of red worms. Provide the worms a substrate that contains a mix of high carbon materials - like shredded paper, dry leaves or sawdust - and kitchen scraps - such as fruit and vegetable cores and peels, leftover grains and coffee grounds. A few months later, the worms will have transformed the contents into a rich organic fertilizer ready to be applied to garden plants.
"It's a great fertilizer," said UC Master Gardener Dennis Lee. "It's very inexpensive for you to produce. You can do it indoors. There's very little odor - actually, no odor.
Learn more:
Orange County UC Master Gardeners created a video series on worm composting
Vermicomposting - Composting with Worms, from San Joaquin County Master Gardeners
