There is a worm on the leaf, dead.

I left a few dead worms under the pot and hid in a ditch about twenty yards away, holding the other end of the string.

All signs of the dead worm had been erased, scoured clean.

And dead worms had been seen with nothing to say why they died.

The day after she was 'very weak' and passed 'a stool with three great dead worms'.

The buildup of dead worms in the eye eventually causes lesions and blindness.

If it goes sour, you'll have a box of dead worms.

"Tastes like a dead worm," he reported, "fried in oil."

That box of dead worms and algae has been sitting in your desk drawer for six months, ever since you got back.

On the other hand, I remember having in former years seen scores or hundreds of dead worms after heavy rain.