Where are all the worms?

[captpierre]

Went out on my subdivision road this morning to look for worms after the rain.  The robins must have beat me to them. 

“The early bird gets the worm...”

[Garnet]

Don't use road worms they have road rash . Will contaminate your good worms and all will die. 

[misfish]

30 minutes ago, Garnet said:

Don't use road worms they have road rash . Will contaminate your good worms and all will die. 

Yup, learned that . They do not survive for some reason.

[dave524]

headlamp in the evening, after dark when it rains, 48 ounce can strapped to each calf, always found damp sphagnum moss to be the best to keep them in.

[irishfield]

I've never seen so many huge dew worms. Every clump of sod I was moving back to where it belonged on Monday,  from that careless snow plow guy, had dozens and dozens in every clump.

[Terry]

Damn plow guy rips up your lawn and drinks all your Pepsi 

[lew]

Lotsa worms on my front walk this morning.

[KraTToR]

My dealer has a good supply and they are especially big this spring.  He did state that due to the pandemic, stocks are low and prices will climb. 

Gawd I hate bending over tho..

[captpierre]

Lots of smiling, stuffed robins around here. 😎

[Fisherman]

Yup, they're having to take a run before they become airborne.

[crappieperchhunter]

2 hours ago, Garnet said:

Don't use road worms they have road rash . Will contaminate your good worms and all will die. 

Been using road worms for over 20 years....once I got too lazy to collect them at night with a flashlight and have never had a problem. I collect them after a rain and they go straight into fresh moss I pick out of my back yard with a sprinkle of corn meal to feed them.  Then they are in my fridge until I use them. Generally get used up quickly but I have had them in the fridge for 2 months without a problem, just have to give them some more cornmeal every once in a while. In all this time I might of had a dozen dead ones. Maybe our street here doesn't have any harmful chemicals on the pavement or whatever causes the worms to be contaminated?

[Lukasaurus]

I picked up a bar fridge yesterday for $20. I am hoping to stock up before the marina on Nipissing opens up at the end of May. I will be out tonight picking. When I was young I used to bend over while picking worms, now I am on all fours with a head light. My back isn't what it used to be.

[misfish]

14 minutes ago, Lukasaurus said:

I picked up a bar fridge yesterday for $20. I am hoping to stock up before the marina on Nipissing opens up at the end of May. I will be out tonight picking. When I was young I used to bend over while picking worms, now I am on all fours with a head light. My back isn't what it used to be.

I laugh cuz I feel yer pain . Same boat.  LOL

[KraTToR]

1 hour ago, captpierre said:

Lots of smiling, stuffed robins around here. 😎

I prefer not to stuff them before they go into the oven...

[irishfield]

Funny, I go to get the mail from the site box and the kids down at the 4 way stop have a table and cooler out  at the end of their laneway with a giant WORMS sign on it !

[aplumma]

The old saying is " the early bird gets the worm." Wake up earlier. lol

Art

[Garnet]

I made small fortune selling dew worms. Dad thought it was crazy Idea we lived on HWy 2 west of Whitby. Started out at 1 cent a worm then up price to 2 cents, I got nice french fry box for worms.

Most where repeat customers if I wasn't home they got there Worms and left money in door I'd have $5- 10 some days. 1967 my dad was driving truck for $95 a week. Bought my parents a frig and later a stand up freezer. Think everybody in family had it at some time.

[Rizzo]

gonna go get me some tonight. I don't ever see the juicy big ones in the morning, but at night? look out. Yard is covered in em

[Bill]

The Robins are eating well this year in my front yard.

[misfish]

There is a bunch on the walk here. Those nice small ones. Scooped up a couple dozen for those finicky little guys that wont take the fly .

[LeXXington]

Lots out last night and in the AM.   Most of that rain missed us just light sprinkle for a few hours and that was it

[porkpie]

21 hours ago, KraTToR said:

My dealer has a good supply and they are especially big this spring.  He did state that due to the pandemic, stocks are low and prices will climb. 

Gawd I hate bending over tho..

I bought a ton of beautiful crawlers in Amherstburg last week, they had coolers full.  Cheap like Borscht too.  Let’s hope that remains the same.

[Garnet]

The commercial people raise African red worms they are a lot more hardy. They are more pointed and red than dew worms.

Don't know any golf course picking anymore.

I ran my worm bis 2-3 years. Made fortunes and even loan sharked my parents friends I never liked them so interest was atrocious.

I picked on bus in Columbus for couple weeks even young maybe 15-16 tough way to make money. The bus stopped across the road from our house so easy.

Can't remember last time I used worms.

   

[misfish]

52 minutes ago, Garnet said:

The commercial people raise African red worms they are a lot more hardy. They are more pointed and red than dew worms.

I remember way back getting these worms I think. They did not need to be refrigerated . Kept in a warm place. I put the ones I had on top of some ducting. They were gone when I grabbed the box 2 days later. Think it was hotter then warm. They evaporated . LOL

[Garnet]

It's incredible how far away that ground is.

I use to watch  my dad struggle to pick things thinking never happening to me.

WRONG WRONG WRONG