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How do worms find..
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? |
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How do worms find..
"a.c." wrote in message oups.com... 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? Seeming devoid-but full of life. They did not all arrive simultaneously. A few worms underground within a few feet of the compost moved in and multiplied in this nice nutritious environment. |
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How do worms find..
Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote: "a.c." wrote in message oups.com... 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? Seeming devoid-but full of life. They did not all arrive simultaneously. A few worms underground within a few feet of the compost moved in and multiplied in this nice nutritious environment. a few feet... that's a metre? Just how far down do their underground cities go? |
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How do worms find..
"a.c." wrote in message oups.com... 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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How do worms find..
"a.c." wrote in message oups.com... Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote: "a.c." wrote in message oups.com... 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? Seeming devoid-but full of life. They did not all arrive simultaneously. A few worms underground within a few feet of the compost moved in and multiplied in this nice nutritious environment. a few feet... that's a metre? Just how far down do their underground cities go? up to 3 metres apparently for the deep dwellers. rob |
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How do worms find..
a.c. writes
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? There's usually the odd one or two around, and they breed very rapidly in the right conditions. -- Kay |
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