Digging For Worms, Fishing For Answers

Digging For Worms, Fishing For Answers

Worms continue to be a leading security threat on the Internet. This paper analyzes several of the more widespread worms and develops a general life-cycle for them. The lifecycle, from the point of view of the victim host, consists of four stages: target selection, exploitation, infection, and propagation. While not all worms fall into this framework perfectly, by understanding them in this way...

Grunting for worms: seismic vibrations cause Diplocardia earthworms to emerge from the soil.

Harvesting earthworms by a practice called 'worm grunting' is a widespread and profitable business in the southeastern USA. Although a variety of techniques are used, most involve rhythmically scraping a wooden stake driven into the ground, with a flat metal object. A common assumption is that vibrations cause the worms to surface, but this phenomenon has not been studied experimentally. We dem...

Fishing for answers.

Species richness and macronutrient content of wawo worms (Polychaeta, Annelida) from Ambonese waters, Maluku, Indonesia

The aims of this research were to: (1) investigate the species richness of wawo worms, and to (2) analyze macronutrient content of the worms. Wawo worms were sampled using a fishing net on March 18(th)-19(th), 2014, from Ambonese waters, Maluku. As many as 26 wawo species belonging to 5 families were identified. Palola sp. was identified as the most abundant species of wawo, followed by Lysidic...

Commentary: Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

Most readers not already committed to the arcane practices of fish 'stock assessment' (the applied part of fisheries science) will probably assume that the subject matter covered by Ware is central to fisheries management. Strangely, this is not so: stock assessments are usually performed on the basis of trends in the catches of single species, and other fisheries-derived data, without referenc...