Don't dump your worms

[notime]

According todays Globe you shouldn't dump your worms. Interesting article. Worms are not native to NE and actually hurt the soil in forests.

[rockfisherman]

According todays Globe you shouldn't dump your worms. Interesting article. Worms are not native to NE and actually hurt the soil in forests.
Huh???? Link please....

[albacized]

Is that why everytime it rains, I see worms on the sidewalks or in the street?

[albacized]

Maybe they mean the Canadian nightcrawlers they sell at Walmart....They're Canadian after all... (#$119)

[BobG]

(#$119) The Globe...
There's a credible source. :confused:
Worms are not native to NE? (#$119)
My Grandmother (deceased @ 92), used to tell me she dug worms in her garden in Palmer Ma when she was a child to go fishing for horned pout and eels in the Ware River.
So just who introduced these worms? The Pilgrims? :rolleyes:

[mcurtiss]

Contrary to popular belief, the earthworms found in the gardens and forests of New England aren't native. Virtually all of the worms north and west of New Jersey were wiped out during the ice age that ended about 10,000 years ago.
European earthworms -- or their cocoons -- first hitched rides to the New World on the root balls of colonists' plants or in dirt that was used as ballast in ships to steady them on the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean.

In the 1800s, much of the region's vast forests were cut down for farmland, and worms -- clinging to plants or even plows' wheels -- were introduced to more areas of New England. A patchwork of wormed and worm-free woods was created when forests later reclaimed the farmlands.


http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/12/11/when_worms_turn?mode=PF

[SteepBank]

Good god...isnt anything native these days?

[notime]

Thanks MCCurtis, I forgot to post the link.

Who knew? So...what do you do with your worms when you are done? That was never answered in the article.

[mcurtiss]

Thanks MCCurtis, I forgot to post the link.

Who knew? So...what do you do with your worms when you are done? That was never answered in the article.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/shopsite/media/Thomas_Rockwell_How_to_Eat_Fried_Worms_unabridged_ cassettes.jpg

[chathamgreg]

By the logic presented here humans aren't native to NE either. Better not reproduce.

[billyo]

Let me see if I have this right, worms are not good for the soil in New England and are a threat to our way of life. As a daily Globe reader of 35 or so years, I have always found it to be in my best interest to do exactly the opposite of what the Globe suggests. It is a failsafe way to a happy life. I'm going out today to buy the biggest nightcrawlers I can find and let them go in my wifes garden.

[SamRiley]

Who knew? So...what do you do with your worms when you are done? That was never answered in the article.

New England Tequila maybe :D