{"id":11946,"date":"2012-06-27T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:26:15","slug":"earthworms-are-hermaphrodites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/earthworms-are-hermaphrodites\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthworms are Hermaphrodites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/earthworm-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11947\" title=\"earthworm facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/earthworm-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/earthworm-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/earthworm-facts-340x487.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthworms are hermaphrodites.\u00a0 When two worms mate, both worms produce children.\u00a0 The worms mate by getting in more or less a 69 position and exchanging sperm with one another.\u00a0 Much later, a cocoon is then secreted by the clitellum band, which is visible near the front of the worm.\u00a0 This is roughly ring shaped.\u00a0 As it&#8217;s sliding out of the secreted ring, the worm deposits its eggs and the other worm&#8217;s sperm into the ring.\u00a0 The ring then seals itself once the worm is completely out.\u00a0 Eventually, the baby earthworms emerge, lacking only the ability to breed at this point, but otherwise fully developed and ready to go process some soil and be the staple of a lot of animal&#8217;s diets.\u00a0 How long it takes for them to emerge from the cocoon depends completely on the environment.\u00a0 The cocoon can keep for years without hatching, if the environment isn&#8217;t right, or can hatch quite quickly if it&#8217;s a nice dry environment.\u00a0 One cocoon will typically produce 1-5 worms.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worm Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/south-african-earthworms-can-grow-as-large-as-22-feet-long\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthworms are hermaphrodites.\u00a0 When two worms mate, both worms produce children.\u00a0 The worms mate by getting in more or less a 69 position and exchanging sperm with one another.\u00a0 Much later, a cocoon is then secreted by the clitellum band, which is visible near the front of the worm.\u00a0 This is roughly ring shaped.\u00a0 As it&#8217;s sliding out of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[642,1096,739],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-animal-facts","tag-earthworm-facts","tag-worm-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11948,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}