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Using a probe to measure the soil animals via sound will be a big improvement on the current method of digging soil pits to find worms.
A research project at the University of Warwick, funded by the Defra Farming Innovation Programme, is investigating how ‘ecoacoustics' - the noises made by earthworms and invertebrates in the soil - can...
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