Can the noises made by earthworms help us understand more about soil health?

Defra-funded research project looks to help farmers to understand soil health by listening to the noises made by earthworms

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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.
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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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