The large, white worm at the top is the giant Palouse earthworm,Driloleirus americanus.

Query: Earthworm

Result: 7^th of 151

Subject:	The large, white worm at the top is the giant Palouse earthworm,Driloleirus americanus.
Source:	http://www.palouseprairie.org/invertebrates/palo...

Resolution: 1352x634 File Size: 103227 Bytes Upload Date: 2008:01:30 13:58:58

PPF: Giant Palouse Earthworm (Driloleirus americanus)

University of Idaho graduate student Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon samples a Palouse Prairie remnant south of Moscow for earthworms.
She found the rare giant Palouse earthworm at a different site north of Pullman, Wash.
Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of Idaho ??? 2005

The large, white worm at the top is the giant Palouse earthworm,Driloleirus americanus.
Below is the southern worm or
Aporrectodea trapezoides
, which is considered an introduced species.
Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of Idaho ??? 2005

Earthworm
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