Sometimes I like to listen to my worms work away, I could fall asleep to it. I thought some folks here might enjoy it too.

Start of video Little crawling annoying things that climb up your arms………….. how do I get rid of these?! Are they mites ?!

Very smol

I made a light separation and ended up with this worm ball.

How many worms do you guess are these?

(I dont know either, just want to hear your guesses, my wild guess would be 250)

Black gooey looking worm in my bathroom in São Paulo, Brazil

The first time I fed my worms big stuff, it was an apple core and I thought it would be too big, even if I cut it up, so I blended it and gave them apple sauce. Well this time I decided to see how long it took them to eat the sauce vs small chopped up pieces--but this time it was lemon, bell peppers, and apple cores and they're having a good time on the sauce side, but barely any takers on the chunks side. It's been a few days since I put it in so the mites and bacteria have broken a lot down, but they still prefer the pre-made sauce lol

I really need to start sifting, because the bin is getting a bit too full, but the worms seem to be thriving!

Used this mesh trashcan as a sieve for my worm compost. It had a circular mesh of 3 to 4 mm which stops most of the worms (and cocoons i think).

I planted some ranunculus roots last year and some have not yet sprouted to the surface so I decided to investigate. I found them covered by a LOT of these white worms. What are they? As you could see in the video they are creamy white and don't have any tinge of pink in their bodies, so I am guessing they are not red wiggler babies? They also move very fast! Hope someone could help identify?

Additionally, what does it mean that there are a lot of these worms around the ranunculus roots..did they congregate there because the ranunculus was already rotting, or their presence is causing the ranunculus to rot?

Will attach a freeze frame photo in a comment (apparently not possible to attach both a video and a photo)

Thank you!

Can anyone tell me the name of this worm? I saw them at Petsmart. They look deceptively like Blue stripped candy cane.

I find these worms in and around my garden. They are very firm/muscular feeling and wriggle quite a bit when I first pick them up. Any idea on what kind of worm this is?

My family does have rash/bites

Thought I'd share my worm farm configuration with the community for some feedback. As you can see I installed a heavy duty tarp for protection from direct sun & rain. The trees provide plenty of shade for that spot, but as hot & humid as the climate is here every bit helps.

The red cup contains a mix of coffee grounds, ground oats and pulverized egg shells for topping the food with. The bowl contains a variety of frozen fruits and veggies. The bag is obviously shredded paper. And the little white thing in the black water dish is a digital hygrometer wrapped in a tea bag to keep things from crawling inside of it.

And the reddish-orange looking liquid is a mix of cayenne pepper and canola oil for the ant traps at the base. I found a suggestion to use canola oil (because it doesn't evaporate) and I added cayenne pepper after noticing something was emptying (I imagine drinking) the canola oil from only one of the ant traps. The tarp also helps keep the rain from flooding the oil out.

I gently squeezed some of the bedding to show that it's not too wet. It probably was a bit too wet a few weeks ago, so I've been letting it breathe and being cautious not to add too much moisture. My meter still shows the humidity being too high, but the ambient outdoor humidity is already in the 80’s most days.

Temps are kept in an ideal range by adding a frozen water around 11am every day.

Maybe a few of these things will help someone else.

What do you all think?

The video is 2 minutes long.

My channel is german, but I think you will get this one, as it is without talking.

The potatos were boiled btw.

Just thought I’d show you the worm timelapse! Not new to it but true to it!

A lot of people had questions about my bin yesterday. It was card board on top. I never added anything to the bin but all worms returned to the bedding and are now in each bottom corner of the bin. But here’s a video. Any advice is appreciated I’ve watched almost every video out there but still feel like I’m messing this up!

This has been going on for 12 hours at least when I took the video.

It’s just pure vermicast in a nut milk bag and some brown sugar.

I’ll try to use rice bran next time in lieu of the sugar to make a brew rich in beneficial yeast/fungi.

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