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For the month of August 1998 the term "lumbricus terrestris" returns just 48 on the overture keyword search tool, while the term "nightcrawlers" returns 2,998. I understand that there is a band named Nightcrawlers so I examined the term "nightcrawlers" further so see what people are searching for. Here are my results:
345 canadian nightcrawlers 296 nightcrawlers raising 180 european nightcrawlers 132 nightcrawlers raise 127 feeling nightcrawlers push 123 catch nightcrawlers 115 nightcrawlers wholesale 73 earthworm nightcrawlers raising 68 catching nightcrawlers 68 feeling lyric nightcrawlers push 60 african nightcrawlers 59 fishing nightcrawlers 48 nightcrawlers worm 41 nightcrawlers raise sell store 40 canadian nightcrawlers raising 36 bait catch nightcrawlers 35 bait nightcrawlers 33 black egg little nightcrawlers 33 find nightcrawlers 27 new nightcrawlers orleans 25 finding nightcrawlers 25 nightcrawlers push
So, from the almost 3,000 searches done monthly on overture (and probably 5 times that amount on Google) for the term "nightcrawlers", only 195 deal with the rock band.
As for the term "lumber testicles" or whatever it is, I don't think many people know of this term as related to the more common name "nightcrawlers". Pretty clear to me. People are looking for worms when they are searching for nightcrawlers. As the owner of the Nightcrawlers.com website and avid fisherman, I for one know my readers prefer the common name over the scientific name. This isn't for the sake of a few dozen hits on my site. It just makes plain ole common sense to me. I don't know of any fishing trip I've been on where someone has yelled, "Hey! Pass me the Lumbricus Terrestris!" Enough said. Let's keep it "nightcrawlers" and not lumber testicles!
nightcrawler (1) gives absolutely no indication of taxonomic identity, and (2) is effectively unknown in the species' native area (2 google results [1], compared with 973 for common earthworm [2]).
Why have I got to start calling it by a name I'd never even heard of until yesterday?
"In North America and elsewhere" - where is "elsewhere"? Checked google, and got nil returns for .au (where Lumbricus terrestris is "Common European Earthworm" or "Common Earthworm"), .ie (where "The Earthworm"!), .za and .in, and just one return for "Nightcrawler" for .nz sites. In NA but outwith the US, Canada marginally favours Dew Worm (about 50:40:10 Dew Worm:Nightcrawler:Common Earthworm). I was also as much as anything baffled by your wishing to so downgrade "Common Earthworm" as a name; there's no end of other species called "common" which are not the most numerous species of their group, but are the most obvious species to the casual observer. In that, it is entirely within the norms of the use of "common" as a descriptor. - MPF 18:10, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Well, in the interests of NPOV, I did a rather exhaustive look with Google. .nz sites give one instance of "common earthworm", one for "nightcrawler" and two for "night crawler". There are 23 sites, most of which do not give a common name at all. There are 5 hits on Google for "common earthworm" for .au, but one of which the reference is in the statement: "In the past, various other earthworm species have frequently been misidentified as L. terrestris, perhaps partly due to it being erroneously known as the 'common earthworm' in school texts." Of the other 4, only one is something not taken from an American or European source such as a bibliography. There is one real hit for "common European earth-worm", one for "dew-worm" one for "field worms", and one called it the "classic textbook earthworm". There is one earthworm related hit for nightcrawler in .za, none for "common earthworm". The real evidence is that only in North America and Europe is there any common name at all, perhaps including New Zealand, though 4 sites for the country is hardly impressive. Five sites in .ca come up for "common earthworm" but only three actually use it as a common name. 9 use either nightcrawler or "night crawler". There are 11 hits for dew worm, but only 5 sites for those hits. These are not impressive numbers on which to base a conclusion, but I could see saying the usage of "nightcrawler" and "dew worm" in Canada is about equivalent, just to stretch a point. Many Canadian sites using "nightcrawler" use the .com domain so judging usage is a little difficult from the internet.
As for the use of the word "common", clearly it is being used in two senses here, one for abundance and one for a proper name. In the British Isles, it is being used as "Common Earthworm" as a proper name. In North America and possibly New Zealand, it is mostly called some variation of "Nightcrawler", or in Canada, "Dew Worm". Elsewhere it is mostly just called by the scientific name and to call it the "common earthworm" is only a source of confusion, like calling Quercus robur, the "common tree". I am happy to have the article reflect that. WormRunner | Talk 00:57, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Nah, it's just a common earthworm. No one has called it nightcrawler in the UK where they come from, so no point un calling it by some disfigured US slang term Phagopsych (talk) 11:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
I really feel this should be merged with the article [earthworm]. These are the same species with 2 articles. I just want that to be known —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geosultan4 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 25 May 2007
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This thing is in need of so much editing I wouldn't even know where to begin. There are a couple nonsensical sentences in here with poor grammar, and mating and reproduction aren't described in proper detail. (E.g. it says "these things are key aspects of mating" but only explains half of them and doesn't say HOW or WHY they're key. Also it just says "fertilization occurs in cocoons" and then "young worms eventually start emerging" but never really explains what the fertilization process entails and what the new worms are growing from [like, it's obviously not an "eggs are laid and then are fertilized by sperm and grow" thing].)
Also. The picture of the long worm under the reproduction section that just says "The worm found in may 2006." Who is he? Why is he under the reproduction section?? This article is a freaking joke lol. 2601:204:CA00:1B70:90EC:38C0:FA60:171D (talk) 08:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC)