"George.com" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
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"George.com" wrote in message
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Some interesting facts for worm denyers. If people still think worms
are an option in their gardens or lawns this will put them right.

Nobody with any serious interest in the subject has been in any
doubt as to the beneficial role of earthworms ever since the
publication of

"The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms."
by Charles Darwin

true indeed however some people do not realise how beneficial worms are
especially, imo, people who grow lawns and pour all sorts of chemicals on
to
the lawn and endanger their worms.

The only New Zealand worm of any interest to U.K residents
are New Zealand flatworms. Cannibals who since their accidental
introduction into the U.K have shown a voracious appetite for
our native earthworms, while being unpalatable to the likes of
predators such as ground beetles and the like.
Although having just read the link, it seems to got itself
a good lawyer and a good agent in the meantime.

Nevertheless, I'd stop while I was ahead if I were you.

michael adams


we will exchange the flat worm for gorse, thistles, ragwort, rabbits,
stoats, weasels, ferrets, possums and wasps. Though not all your you are
welcome to them.


Wasps are beneficial both as pollinators and as predators of many
garden pests. In fact in their own way, they're as beneficial as
are earth worms.

Ferrets are beneficial to man which is why they're semi-domesticated
as they prey on grain eating rodents such as mice. The same probably
goes for stoats and weasels which won't submit to semi domestication
in similar fashion. Except all are a threat to both poultry and their
eggs. You're lucky you don't have mink which can outdo all three of
these.

Your rabbits are probably from Oz, and date from the day in 1859
when Thomas "Clueless" Austin, released 24 wild rabbits* onto
his farm for hunting purposes. hoot




michael adams


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