🦡 Badger (Meles meles) searching for invertebrates under the moss on a tree trunk. Did you know Irish badgers eat differently from their British cousins? In Ireland, research shows that while badgers often snack on earthworms, worms make up only about 4% of their diet by volume. Instead, insects and their larvae make up roughly 20% (with about 60% of the diet bulk consisting of plant material). Across the Irish Sea, it's a different story: in Britain, earthworms can make up 50% or more of what