Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait

Update: 2025-05-13

Description

While they’re famous among anglers, few people realize that Canadian Nightcrawlers—Lumbricus terrestris—have a fascinating biological story all their own, one that stretches across continents and ecosystems.

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In Channel

Field Notes: Horseshoe crabs and health care

2025-10-0704:39

Field Notes: Ruffed Grouse in the Northwoods

2025-09-0904:29

Field Notes: The Fruits of Summer

2025-07-0805:11

Field Notes: Mosquitoes in the Northwoods

2025-06-1005:08

Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait

2025-05-1304:04

Field Notes: Nitrogen Fixation and Bombs

2025-04-0805:02

Field Notes: Frost and Roads

2025-03-1105:02

Field Notes: Calling a fish a ‘fish’

2025-02-1803:33

Field Notes: Otters

2025-01-1404:57

Field Notes: The Fish of Vilas County

2024-12-1004:15

Field Notes: Producers and Consumers

2024-11-1204:43

Field Notes: Bountiful Blooms in our Water Bodies

2024-10-1105:59

Field Notes: Harvesting Ginseng

2024-09-1005:38

Field Notes: Thermally Modified Wood

2024-08-1304:21

Field Notes: Know your salamanders

2024-06-1305:05

Field Notes: Wisconsin Crappies

2024-05-1405:17

Recording long term data

2024-03-1204:51

The Amazing Apple Tree

2024-02-1305:38

El Nino in Wisconsin

2024-01-0903:51

Northern Watersnakes

2023-12-1205:16

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Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait

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Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait

Gretchen Gerrish

Canadian Nightcrawlers: More Than Just Bait