AMAZING ANIMALS

THE CALIFORNIAN RED WORM

• Its colour is dark red.
• It breaths through the skin.
• It is 6 to 8 cm long, and its weight is 1.4 gr.
• It can´t tolerate solar light, a worm exposed to solar light dies in a few minutes.
• It lives about 4.5 years and can produce 1,300 new worms by year.
• The Californian red worm advances at the same time that eats and makes tunnels, leaving the excreta behind and turning the ground in one much more fertile
• We´ve got a lot of worms in our school orchard.