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What is it with earthworms?
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Posted by deejaus Melb.Vic. Aust (My Page) on Sat, Aug 27, 05 at 23:33
My husband has just been cleaning out the gutters and remarked that he had found quite a number of earthworms in the sludge. We got to wondering how on earth do they get there? I can understand seed dispersal from bird droppings, but do they ingest earthworms eggs???? Does anyone know? Just so curious!
Cheers,
Dee. |
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RE: What is it with earthworms?
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- Posted by meggs WA Aust (My Page) on
Sun, Aug 28, 05 at 6:05
| They climb up the walls. In heavy rain my walls are covered with worms trying to escape the flood. |
RE: What is it with earthworms?
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| They are distant relatives of "THE DROP BEAR" |
RE: What is it with earthworms?
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- Posted by deejaus Melb.Vic. Aust (My Page) on
Sun, Aug 28, 05 at 19:54
| Very funny Jaqueline!! lol. Meggs, that makes sense but around here we don't really have floods and I have never seen earthworms on the walls, so I'm still a bit puzzled. Cheers,
Dee. |
RE: What is it with earthworms?
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- Posted by meggs WA Aust (My Page) on
Tue, Aug 30, 05 at 5:15
| Well Dee, it is not floods in our sense, it is floods in the worm world. It is enough to have water invading their tunnels to force them to climb walls. However, I think yours might be 'wondering' worms, they just want to explore :-). |
RE: What is it with earthworms?
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| Maybe they aren't earthworms maybe they are gutter worms or roof worms. |
RE: What is it with earthworms?
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| I found one in an indoor potplant that had never lived outside. Wondered who kept throwing bits of potting mix out of the pot for me to clean up! |
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