Before we go into the details of worm composting, let us meet first the very essential contributor to the process - the earthworms. I'm sure you've heard or even seen these creatures. Earthworms are invertebrates, meaning animals that has no backbones, that thrive in the soil. They are creatures that makes our soil rich by consuming the organic matter or wastes in the soil and makes oxygen flow through the soil when they go about creating tunnels.
There are a lot of types of earthworm in earth but what we will be using in worm composting are those that are classified as, what else, Composting Worms. The other type of worm that we usually find in agricultural fields are called Earthworkers. Earthworkers and Composting Worms are basically the same but the composting worms are fast breeders and consumes a lot of organic material which makes them ideal for vermicomposting.
Earthworms are hermaphrodites, meaning there is no disticntion between a male and a female because they have both sex organs. Having both organs does not mean though that the worms does not need a partner in order to reproduce. They still copulate with each other in order to reporduce.
Earthworms are commonly called dew-worm, rainworm, night crawler, and angleworm.
You can read a whole lot about earthworms from Wikipedia.
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