A number of sympagic worm species are commonly called ice worms.
It seems to me we're in the safest possible place for dealing with ice worms right where we are.
Like other ice worms, it subsists on algae and pollen.
On the other hand, if the totem were, say, an ice worm, that wasn't a good sign.
Scientists know little about the ice worm during the winter as the inaccessibility of glaciers prevents further study.
It is believed that the ice worm has a life span of five to ten years.
"But why would anyone kill a man whose only interest was a lot of harmless ice worms?"
A child could grasp the biology of a single ice worm in an afternoon.
This may have contributed to the impression that ice worms are mythical creatures.
The only things that live in glaciers are ice worms, which live on red algae.