Simon Stenkle

I went out in the dark tonight with a flashlight and saw three long reddish
worms.

Sounds like nightcrawlers to me. We used to catch'em for fishing. Tricky little
devils, really fast to, didn't know they eat basil. Did you actually see them
eating the basil or just stretched out on the ground? One of the tricks to
catching them was figuring out which end was in the ground. They don't react to
red light nearly as much as white light.