Dzdzownice, ich hodowle oraz perspektywy zastosowania tej grupy zwierzat w dzialaniach proekologicznych

Earthworms are creatures living in different kind of soils. Scientific interest in earthworms is on the rise. In the world the subject of the earthworm is not only a theoretical one. Several big companies in the United States, Canada and Europe have seriously begun sampling institutional and municipal organics as feedstocks for earthworms. Small scale vermiculture - "worm bins" has entered the American schools. The school children actively participate in constructing the bins, preparing the bedding, and introducing the residues to the worm bins. They become to know earthworms better. In Polish schools children need ecological education too. The fantastic idea of worm bins, useful for solving some ecological problems, should be introduced into the school program on different levels of education. Possibilities of the use of earthworms as an object for ecological education are numerous. Experiments on "seeding" earthworms -in the fields if necessary to replace a significant portion of the fertilizer applied, or to reduce compaction and perhaps the number of cultivations necessary, seem to be economically and ecologically justifiable too.