worms

[tycomps]

hit the streets and sidewalks with a straightened paperclip and a zip lock bag, must have collected a hundred perfect size trout worms today. scoop under their center and push them into the bag, they're feisty as hell, tons of fun!

[Billfish715]

Every leaf pile in the neighborhood streets has worms under them. The rain really brings them out.

[acabtp]

sidewalk? what's that? don't have them in these here parts... get our worms out the compost pile, yessiree

[lunkertaker]

Man I got more WORMS in more sizes and colors than GOD knows about.

Collected them all on my own by touching and feeling, thinking and wondering, anticipating and organizing.

They were all found in packs of 10-20 and lizards are found in the same way.

[Eskimo]

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It's fun to see the look of confusion and fear on my neighbors' faces as I scrounge around the parking lot of my condo complex picking up earthworms after a heavy rain storm.

The baffled looks of consternation from the Chinese family on the second floor is absolutely priceless!

The hardest part is keeping the worms alive for any period of time. I put them in a coffee can with some dirt, but they always seem die and rot in a day or two. The smell when I open the can is awful.

[Wilson]

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It's fun to see the look of confusion and fear on my neighbors' faces as I scrounge around the parking lot of my condo complex picking up earthworms after a heavy rain storm.

The baffled looks of consternation from the Chinese family on the second floor is absolutely priceless!

The hardest part is keeping the worms alive for any period of time. I put them in a coffee can with some dirt, but they always seem die and rot in a day or two. The smell when I open the can is awful.
Store them in some peat moss with a little dirt mixed in. Make sure you have some air holes in the top of the can and store in the refrigerator.
Mine last for months.

[tycomps]

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It's fun to see the look of confusion and fear on my neighbors' faces as I scrounge around the parking lot of my condo complex picking up earthworms after a heavy rain storm.

The baffled looks of consternation from the Chinese family on the second floor is absolutely priceless!

The hardest part is keeping the worms alive for any period of time. I put them in a coffee can with some dirt, but they always seem die and rot in a day or two. The smell when I open the can is awful.

I was wearing my white lobster boat boots with a black hoodie pulled over my head out in the pouring rain collecting mine, looked like the definition of a 'fool in the rain'. I seriously expected a cop to pull up at any moment and ask "wtf are you doing?" :D

[Wilson]

I was wearing my white lobster boat boots with a black hoodie pulled over my head out in the pouring rain collecting mine, looked like the definition of a 'fool in the rain'. I seriously expected a cop to pull up at any moment and ask "wtf are you doing?" :D
A long while back when I lived in No. Plfld. I was getting tons of crawlers from the school yard on Grove St.
So I'm out there about 12:00 am one night with my red light and all of a sudden I'm lit up from a cop spotlight:eek:
He motions me over to the car and asks me if I'm getting any? I was surprised and relieved at the same time.
I showed him my collection and he sez good I'll be back later, thanks me and drove off!

[june181901]

The way that worms stayed fresh when I was stationed in Michigan a long time ago was a product called "Bus-bedding". Came with its own box and it kept crawlers alive.
Do not know if it is still being manufactured.

[baetis]

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It's fun to see the look of confusion and fear on my neighbors' faces as I scrounge around the parking lot of my condo complex picking up earthworms after a heavy rain storm.

The baffled looks of consternation from the Chinese family on the second floor is absolutely priceless!

The hardest part is keeping the worms alive for any period of time. I put them in a coffee can with some dirt, but they always seem die and rot in a day or two. The smell when I open the can is awful.

I find that the ones grabbed off of pavement after a rain storm die quickly. My guess is that they've absorbed too much water.

[acabtp]

i don't have luck storing collected worms in the fridge. then again, i keep mine set at about 34°.

canadian nightcrawlers do fine at that temperature, but the red worms i collect i just keep in the basement where it's between 50 and 60 year round.

[Billfish715]

Buss Bedding work extremely well for nightcrawlers. A guy from the Pine Brook area used to sell worms on Rt. 46. He packaged his worms in Buss Bedding and stored them in a refrigerator. The earthworms never kept well in Buss Bedding. They dried up. Most of those worms are kept in commercial topsoil which keeps them a little longer but you can't keep too many in one container. For what it's worth, I've always done better with crawlers and baby crawlers. The leftover worms can be repackaged and refrigerated to be used later.

[tycomps]

i don't have luck storing collected worms in the fridge. then again, i keep mine set at about 34°.

canadian nightcrawlers do fine at that temperature, but the red worms i collect i just keep in the basement where it's between 50 and 60 year round.

went to check my stock last night and it turns out my son hit the "colder" dial again on the fridge! looks like I'll be hittin the leafpile tomorrow :mad: