Asian jumping worm

Hello!

I am writing a research article about the Asian Jumping Worm ( Amynthas spp. )  I live in the US so of course every time I try to research the worm all that comes up are inflammatory articles about how invasive it is.  It has been impossible to find an article simply talking about the earthworms native habitat, and how it interacts within its local environment in Japan and Korea. If anyone has any articles or could connect me with resources from Japan and Korea that will give me a better understanding of the Asian jumping worm in its natural habitat I would greatly appreciate it.

I don't know if this will be helpful though here is a post that I made in 2016:

https://permies.com/t/59684/composting/Worms-bad#507238

Here are some links I found that may or may not be helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amynthas

https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/121715

My grandfather sold them to fishermen in the 1920s in Galveston Texas.  They are called Alabama Jumping worms since at least the1920s. They are named after Alabama because they've always been in that rich Alabama farmland soil for as long as anyone can remember.  It's absolutely the best fishing worm you can get. It's firm body is easy to hook and it wiggles so much no fish can resist eating it. Nothing is new about this endemic earthworm except its new name Asian Jumping worm to add sensationalism to an endemic earthworm.  They also lately tell us earthworms of any kind are not native to North America but that is more misinformation because well over one hundred earthworms are definitely native. You have to research further into things to protect nature from the hoards of falsehoods. The Alabama Jumping Worm has been here longer than any of us.

Hi Taylor. If you are still active here, I’d love to know how did your article turned out? I’m battling them here on my small property, they’ve really made a mess of my soil in just a couple of years , and I’d be interested to see what mechanisms exist in their native ranges that keep them in check.

Next year I’m following a protocol that used B. bassiana as a myco-remediation.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8035901/

There is no fact to the word native. It is thrown around everywhere with no defined timeline. Life forms are all native to the ever changing earth and need to move around to survive and all and to add necessary diversity and in many cases change the menu a bit.
 The new label invasive life form is earthling that has made a successful move to a new part of earth according to authority. We are not allowed to challenge this negative theory and its resulting extinction mechanism.  Nothing is allowed to escape extinction from human encroachment and poaching or climate change anymore since this new false theory/term was invented. We could have saved the human extermination of the white rhino just by relocation but nope that's not native to North America even though North America was once home to about 40 or 50 species of rhinoceros at one time or another. Human intervention is completely accepted as a hunter or an extreme exterminator but never to relocate. Invasive is a deadly theory and it's profitable to the regulators who gain from the so called resolutions.
The earthworm is just as beneficial in Asia as it is in the rest of earth. There are no articles from Asia to be found about this earthworm destroying Asia because earthworms are beneficial earthlings.  
This Alabama Jumping Worm earthworm is already fully endemic to Alabama and going into its third century here in North America. It's native as far as anyone is concerned and Alabama has loved its namesake earthworms and grown fine crops in symbiotic relation as long as it's been a state. I have been farming with these worms all my life and there is absolutely nothing negative about them or any other earthworm.