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‘Pesticides by stealth’: garden soil conditioners killing worms, experts fear (www.theguardian.com)

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Gardeners are inadvertently killing scores of earthworms with soil conditioners marketed as “organic”, experts fear, as they call for tighter regulation on products that poison the invertebrates.

Earthworms may appear humble, but Charles Darwin thought their work in improving soil structure and fertility was so important he devoted his final book to them and said: “It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organised creatures.”

However, some gardeners who want a tidy lawn remove worm casts, which can be viewed as unsightly, particularly if the casts – made of the worms’ excrement – are squashed and spread over the surface.

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[–] maculata@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

“Tidy lawns” is the classic bugbear of utter fuckwits.