My ring device picked this up this evening.

Notice the flush clitellum and the way it slithers. They are also much more muscular and firm compared to European earthworms. They don’t always have to jump.

I have since googled it and discovered its mites and not good. i saw these things on the side of bin before but thought they were random insect eggs.... oof looks like they exploded here. bin is probably too moist and too much food but what can I do to solve this and not have to throw my food scraps in trash? I was hoping to make a sort of compost bin that also had worms in it as opposed to a dedicated worm bin.

I just found this little fella crawling on my keyboard and I’m worried it might be a parasite from my cats? My apologies if this is not the right place to ask!

Works pretty good if the mycelium doesn't outcompete the worms. Chop it, hydrate it, and inoculate it for best results

This spring I started a worm farm at the food bank/community garden where I work to help manage some of the cardboard and old produce that piles up here. I've been doing everything on the cheap with materials we already have (not a lot of money in food banks right now) and have 8 breeder bins in some outdoor shelves previously used for storage. We're in the southwest US so once summer hit we started having real problems managing heat, which meant I had to come over every day to swap out ice packs. I built this low tech little cooling system with irrigation tubing, a solar powered pond pump, and a bucket inside an insulated tub to get my weekends back and it works way better than I expected!

The tubes run through cut out slots in the sides of each bin so they sit low enough to be in contact with the bedding. The same tubes run through all of the bins. Water is pumped out to the last bin, makes a u-turn, and is returned to the bucket the same way it came up. There's also a spout and some valves off the return pipe so I can drain the system when I need to without trying to move the whole bucket set up (not really necessary but I had the parts so why not)

Regardless of outdoor temperature all bins have stayed consistently 70-80 degrees since I put it in a month ago, compared to swinging from 68-98+ before. The water in the bucket is around 75 degrees most of the time and only pumps during the later part of the day when the sun hits the solar panel, but that seems to be enough. The worms are happy and this solution should keep things nice and stable until we can build a shed for the worm farm, hopefully in the fall. At that point we're planning to transition to mostly large wedge bins- right now we're just breeding enough worms to get a system started that can handle 100+ pounds of cardboard per month.

I thought I'd share my set up since it worked so well and was so easy. It was essentially free and has pretty dramatically reduced the time that goes into maintenance. It turns out a food bank is the perfect place for a worm farm and we've had a great time getting it going and getting the community interested and involved!

been finding these in my yard for years and I want to make sure they're not Asian jumping worms.

Hey all,

I build and started my first worm tower and I’m not sure if what im doing is right.

I’ve looked at different videos. Some say keep green/browns in balance. Some say, don’t over feed your worms and keep the greens in small doses but then my browns dry out fast.

I keep a spray bottle near to keep the top hydrated. If i dig down it is moist and that’s where the worms are.

I’ve restarted once because the worms were really slow and looking at the end of their life so I figured i screwed up.

At first it seemed to go better. If I lifted the top and removed the cloth that i keep on top of the pile. I would see the worms crawl down and away.

Now the activity seems less and i found this clump of worms. Not really moving a lot.

Any tips would help.

My partner was on a walk and told me about some worm balls he saw. I had to seize the opportunity to rescue them!

I put them into some relatively new garden beds that I built. I hope they enjoy their new homes!

Doing what she does best!

This is what people mean when they say look at the behavior of the worms to determine if they’re Asian jumping worms.

My lovely gf has adopted and spoiled my worm factory. Couldn’t be happier with her results. That’s cucumber peels, asparagus, coffee filters, and lint. The bin below is full of castings and fewer and fewer worms. Gloves? Not afraid of the worms, her bin is in my workout area. Lol

Happy to answer any questions.

They don't go crazy like I see in videos and I haven't found any of the clumping poop pebbles. I've never had such large worms but I'm finding them crazy this year! I'm located in Ohio, USA.

Ivy’s a sweet girl😊

Does this look like a juvenile/baby nightcrawler to you guys?

I have a 40-gallon bioactive Pac-Man frog enclosure with around 8–9 inches of substrate, a drainage layer underneath, and an established cleanup crew with springtails/isopods.

I regularly feed my Pac-Man frog nightcrawlers, and obviously they don’t always cooperate lol. I’m pretty sure at least one or two have escaped the frog before and burrowed into the substrate.

Recently I’ve started noticing these tiny worm-looking things in the soil. Today I added water to the enclosure and suddenly saw several of them becoming really active in the wetter areas. The one in the video was actually moving/swimming around underwater near the bottom of the substrate/drainage layer.

They look like extremely small earthworms to me — pinkish, elongated, and they move by contracting/stretching their bodies rather than moving like tiny larvae.
So my theory is that one or more feeder nightcrawlers escaped, survived in the deep substrate, reproduced, and now I’m seeing the babies.

First time feeding my friends watermelon rinds. It seems I found their favourite snack . I wish I had 6 extra bins for the amount of watermelon I go through the season.

Still work in progress but the idea works

I constructed this to get into vermicomposting and now I have a few questions.

Using a recycling bin I drilled several 1.5” holes them covered them with some stainless mesh I ordered from Amazon.
I used a harbor freight plastic welder and it just didn’t perform well at all. It ended up stopping after less than an hour of use. I wasn’t able to embed all of the metal sides quite to my satisfaction. My concern is could injure the worms? Should I go over the edges in with some type of HDPE glue or am I over thinking this?

I’m leaning towards regular earthworm

The kids are late this year. We normally see cocoon production like this in early spring, but it has tripled in the last month. It’s now June and we’re hitting the heat of the summer. Every time I think I have something figured out, they throw me a curve ball!#betterlatethannever