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To the question of domestication of some species of earthworms of the family Lumbricidae
https://doi.org/10.26898/0370-8799-2025-4-6
Abstract
The lack of technological worms, maximally adapted to the substrate as an object of life activity and raw materials, prevents the wide introduction of environmentally friendly technologies of vermicomposting and vermiremediation. The research on domestication of earthworms of the family Lumbricidae Dendrobaena veneta and Lumbricus terrestris and obtaining their hybrid was carried out on the grounds of the Stavropol Territory. Dendrobaena veneta and Lumbricus terrestris, selected according to the results of morphological speciation for the formation of the breeding stock and hybridization as parental forms, were kept in vermireactors and gullies both separately and jointly. The medium for life activity and vermicomposting was successively highbog peat, litter and semiliquid cattle manure. During the experiment, the worms successively processed the raw materials loaded into the vermicomposting reactor, gradually processed more and more toxic agricultural wastes, mated, and discarded cocoons. Thus, the selection of a new subspecies of worm adapted to the originally planned type of feed, represented by organic wastes of animal and/or plant origin or their complex, took place sequentially. At the same time, the worms did not experience any stress factors, gradually adapting to the changing physical and chemical composition of the feed mixture. The earthworms used in the experiment were successfully domesticated, including in different types of substrates with increasing content of animal waste. The hybrid bred in the course of the experiment demonstrated higher economic performance in vermicomposting of agricultural waste, which allows us to recommend it as a technological worm in the conditions of industrial technology.
About the Authors
A. A. Korovin
North Caucasus Federal Agrarian Research Centre
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrey A. Korovin, Lead Researcher, Doctor of Science in Medicine
V. V. Golembovskii
North Caucasus Federal Agrarian Research Centre
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir V. Golembovskii, Lead Researcher, Candidate of Science in Agriculture
49, Nikonova St., Mikhailovsk, Stavropol Territory, 356241
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Korovin A.A., Golembovskii V.V. To the question of domestication of some species of earthworms of the family Lumbricidae. Siberian Herald of Agricultural Science. 2025;55(4):55-64. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26898/0370-8799-2025-4-6
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