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Originally Posted by Jake
If conditions are right to get the stuff composting, worms will move
up from the soil so clearly your mate has filled his compost heap or
bin with the right combination of stuff (starting a bin by mixing some
compost into the vegetable matter helps) - earthworms won't relocate
to a pile of plant matter - they need something similar to earth,
hence mixing in the compost to encourage them.
Tiger worms, if that's what you mean by the stripeys, are not
earthworms.
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Tiger worms are earthworms (at least to a biologist they are). There are very many species of earthworm across the world. The big fat normal "earthworms" are genus Lumbricus, the tiger worms genus Eisenia. Both are native to Europe but thrive in different conditions, the tiger worms preferring very high levels of humus.
The tiger worms can breed fast, and there's enough of them around for them to colonise your heap if they can gain access to it - they'll then breed very rapidly and you'll end up with great handfuls of them. And they'll disappear equally rapidly when conditions are no longer right.
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