"a.c." wrote in message
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Just wondering outloud having read a previous post on worms.
So, you have a patch of ground. It's barren, hardly a blad of grass,
nor weed in site and seemingly devoid of life, nutrition et al.
You go and start a compost heap from scraps of green kitchen waste.
Then one day you suddenly discover its teaming with red worms.
How did the find it?

Brandlings - or compost worms are especially adapted to eating
rotting organic waste, as their name, eisenia foetida implies.

Apparently worms are receptive to pheromones so quite possibly
they're also receptive to the fetid smell of decomposing
organic matter.

IIRR, pheromone sensitivity over truly prodigious distances is a
well documented phenomenon.


michael adams

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