JERUSALEM, March 21 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has been trying to mediate an end to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, said on Monday that despite some progress big gaps remained between the sides.

While it waits to hear back from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, Brighton and Hove City Council has advised all primary heads to shut their schools, apart from for vulnerable children and those of key workers, and to move learning online.

Allow me to introduce you to Amynthas agrestis, also known as "Alabama jumper," "Jersey wriggler" and the rude-but-accurate "crazy worm." Unlike garden-variety earthworms, these flipping, thrashing, invasive miscreants are ravenous consumers of humus, the rich, organic, essential top layer of soil formed by dead and decaying small animals, insects and leaf litter in places like forests, plant nurseries and your garden.

In Southampton the city council warned that some schools 'do not have enough staff to reopen safely to all children', while Slough Borough Council in Berkshire said some primaries would stay closed amid 'confusion across the board' caused by the Department for 5th grade reading centers Education.

But their existence went largely unnoticed - or perhaps underreported - until the past decade, when ecologists flagged them as problematic, according to Dr. Timothy McCay, a biology and environmental studies professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

Each of them depicts rape, homosexuality and sex and local parents have taken issue with their children's access to the texts Several of the books parents have asked to be banned from the Dearborn, Michigan public school system.

That behavior, coupled with their ability to reproduce rapidly without a mate, gives them an advantage over predators, McCay said. The glossy worms can be either gray or brown, with a smooth cream or white collar that wraps entirely around part of their bodies.

When touched, they thrash from side to side, jump, and may even slither back and forth like a snake.

They conducted their 'relationship' through letters and video calls, named 'purple visits', and she was even allowed a visit to meet him face-to-face at HMP Woodhill after Covid restrictions eased in 2021.

Meeting of Dearborn Schools has descended into chaos and confusion as board members walked out. Mobs opposed to some LGBTQ books took over the meeting as various factions jostled for power. Police themselves were unsure if meeting was still on. "Vote them out," crowd chants.

In court: The former couple began their custody battle in October of 2021, when the actor started a legal case regarding the home state of their children with the former residing in New York and the House actress staying in Los Angeles.

Although their annual life cycle ends in winter, Asian jumping worm cocoons survive to spawn a new generation in spring.

Their tiny eggs are nearly impossible to notice in soil or mulch, but adult worms, which range from 3 to 8 inches long, are easy to spot close to the soil surface and can often be seen moving under mulch or leaf litter, McCay said.

The former couple began their custody battle in October of 2021, when the actor started a legal case regarding the home state of their children with the former residing in New York and the House actress staying in Los Angeles.

McCay, whose research focuses on understanding how the worms invade intact forests, and their effect on forest biodiversity, cautions that "gardeners should do what they can to avoid spreading jumping worms to new areas." Because the worms typically move into forests from nearby gardens, he said, control in home and community gardens is necessary to slow their invasion into natural habitats.

'I think you'll find these are people with deeply held religious beliefs. We have to stand up for the First Amendment and people's religious beliefs and I think you're probably seeing a shift in the Republican Party,' he said.

In addition, McCay advises, do not dispose of waste from infected gardens into nearby forests, and share only plants that have been repotted after their roots have been cleaned of clinging soil. Inspect the soil clinging to plant roots and in the ground surrounding them. Keep an eye out for the worms´ castings, how old is 3rd grade a tell-tale sign of their presence.

13, 2020, image provided by Kaleigh Gale shows a captured Asian jumping worm in Portland, Conn. The species is distinguished from other earthworms by the presence of a creamy gray or white band encircling its body.

Prior to the school board meeting, the district released a new policy that allows parents to block their school-aged children from checking certain items out of the library or prevent them entirely from using the district's library.

But McCay said picking them out by hand and dropping them into containers of vinegar will reduce their numbers. He knows of one gardener in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, who removed 51,000 worms that way in 2021.