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Asian Jumping Worms: ID, Impact, and Prevention (2020)

Purdue University. Landscape Report.

Crazy Worms in Maine

Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry.

Early Detection & Distribution Mapping System (EDDMapS) - Jumping Worm

University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.

Provides state, county, point and GIS data. Maps can be downloaded and shared.

Google Images - Asian Jumping Worm

Google.

Identify Invasive Species - Jumping Worms

University of Minnesota. Extension.

Insects, Spiders, Mice & More - Asian Jumping Worms

University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Invasion of the Exotic Earthworms!

DOI. NPS. Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Invasive Earthworms in the Food Web (Jan 4, 2018)

USDA. FS. Southern Research Station. CompassLive.

Imagine walking through a forest, with leaves crunching beneath your feet. Underneath those crunchy leaves is a complex ecological realm. “Soil is teeming with life,” says U.S. Forest Service research ecologist Mac Callaham. “Most people don’t think about it because they don’t see the soil fauna.” Soil fauna includes centipedes, millipedes, springtails, nematodes, insect larvae, and earthworms. “Springtails are very small arthropods,” says SRS ecologist Melanie Taylor. “Earthworms are the giants of soil fauna.” Taylor, Callaham, and lead author Meixiang Gao recently published a study on non-native earthworms and the food web. The study was published in the journal Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Invasive Jumping Worms Damage U.S. Soil and Threaten Forests (Sep 29, 2020)

University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.

What could be more 2020 than an ongoing invasion of jumping worms? These earthworms are wriggling their way across the United States, voraciously devouring protective forest leaf litter and leaving behind bare, denuded soil. They displace other earthworms, centipedes, salamanders and ground-nesting birds, and disrupt forest food chains. They can invade more than five hectares in a single year, changing soil chemistry and microbial communities as they go, new research shows. And they don’t even need mates to reproduce...

Invasive Species - Jumping Worms

Western New York Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management.

Invasive Species Compendium - Amynthas agrestis

CAB International.

Invasive Species Update - Jumping Worms (Apr 2021) (PDF | 976 KB)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Illinois Extension.

Invasive Terrestrial Animals: Jumping worm (Amynthas species)

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Invasives - Jumping Worms

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Nebraska Invasive Species Program - Asian Jumping Worm

University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Species of Concern - Asian Jumping Worm

St. Lawrence - Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership For Regional Invasive Species Management (New York).

Species Profile -- Asian Jumping Worm

Asian jumping worms are native to east-central Asia and have been present in the U.S. since the late 1800s, but have been recently invading natural habitats in the Northeast and Midwest. These worms were introduced possibly through the horticultural trade or by anglers using them as bait. Asian jumping worms affect forest habitats by altering soil properties, resulting in reduced food resources for native species.

Species Spotlight - Crazy Snake-Worm (Sep 2017) (PDF | 1.12 MB)

DOI. NPS. Northeast Temperate Inventory & Monitoring Network.

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The Asian Jumping Worm (Amynthas spp.) (2017)

Oregon State University. Oregon Sea Grant.

YouTube - Invasive Jumping Worms: Impacts and Prevention

Google. YouTube; Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.