Jackie Stroud

Our next webinar is with @wormscience and @BakerConsultant on 'Earthworms and acoustics'. It's on 19th March at 4 pm and registration is here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesc…

@quadroshopuk Favourite build so far - play tower with ramp! So many choices on what to build, think we’ll do a playhouse next…. #QUADRO #climbingframe #playhouse #family #children #quadroUK

Piece about listening for earthworms with @wormscience and @BakerConsultant on Farming Today this morning - starts at around 4.36 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Worms for breakfast! The family caught me on BBC Breakfast this morning talking to @DrDavidGK about our new @DefraSoils funded research to monitor #earthworms using the sounds they make @No1FarmerJake @baseuk @WarwickCrop

Watch our latest earthworm research featured by BBC (from 4 mins 23) bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

@AHDB_Arabletech Congratulations to you both!

So this happened yesterday. Now have my best friend as my wife. Feel more grown up now!

New research led by @SRUC has found middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms 🪱 – cover up to 42% of the #soil surface in #regenerative farm fields farminguk.com/news/study-ask… @FarmingUK @wormscience 📢Volunteers needed to take part in the next midden survey

Read about our science-farming earthworm survey partnership, just published @AABiologists Thanks to @SRUC for supporting open access, my co-author Prof. Goulding @Rothamsted & #30minworms #worldwormweek community @DefraSoils @louisearable @ukfarming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aa…

#Earthworms are great for #soil. Working with @BBSRC, researchers at @SRUC and @UniofNottingham have studied how worms munch their way through disease-infected residues (#biocontrol). See their video and our article for info. bit.ly/3QsYrJf

Thrilled to be @RHSWisely with a bucket of earthworms and a reading of Under Your Feet for families this half term #earthworms #soils

@RBoldan @RTKfarmer Yes & there was research from forest soils that indicated a burrow is excavated deeper by successive generations

@wormscience @RTKfarmer Will they take over and use an old abandoned burrow?

Remind me @wormscience what you said about the burrow of an Anecic earthworm being it’s home for life?

I never knew this about the history of earthworms! Richard Bardgett is sharing his soil biodiversity knowledge @baseuk

“Monitoring beneficials is as important as pest populations” - great insights about conservation biocontrol from @SamCook_IPM @baseuk

@knudstrupgaard It’s sufficient to create a vertical burrow and feed on the surface straw - it’s a short experiment. Have run experiment in long tubes but they don’t go beyond 8cm depth, probably staying close to food

Setting up a nice little earthworm experiment @UniofNottingham today to better understand midden building behaviours

@rsmithsoil journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@rsmithsoil Its likely to be the anecics making the worm casts on the surface. Farmers have been monitoring the the impact of tillage for a few years

Ploughed strip (on the left) vs no ploughing (on the right). Obvious difference in the abundance of earthworm casts (…and soil colour).

@crawfordjohnw So sorry about your loss, we can never keep them long enough.

We had to put Skye down today after a long illness. 12 years’ memories of adventures and mischief.

Finding eyespot on straw in lumbricus terrestris middens. Anyone else spotting plant pathogen presence? Earthworms thought to prefer fusarium infected straw