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i know this doesent have much butt it will affect affect your selling and purchasing worms from other contrys like people buy belgian night crawlers from europe and it will also affect world wide worm trade
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Comment by Anne on August 2, 2009 at 5:04pm -
The research is showing that european strains (which are then often follwed by asian strains.. Alabama jumpers being the most aggressive.. in some areas) are changing the ecosystems of the forests. To be blunt... wiping out the understory.
I am all for responsible use of vermicomposting, but how many other are? Not long ago Alaska and Hawaii were the last areas to still have native worm, or lack of worm, habitat. They are now also invaded.
Somehow most don't even stop to consider what they are doing (like outdoor vermicomposting in the NE) until the effects are so severe they make the news. In time... it will as they are finding L. terrestris is causing stress to sugar maples and the change in the understory is hampering germination rates.
Do I think it needs to be regulated? Definately. Primarily because most that attempt to vermicompost or do vermicompost have not figured out how their action impact their surroundings.
How green is it if you save a little space in a landfill, yet wreck the ecosystem of a forest near by? VC does wonders for a garden for sure...but how many people posting have you encountered that have checked to see if their area is already "invaded" before cranking up an outdoor bin? I haven't seen a single one.
Yes I vermicompost. Fished my little workers out of a compost heap in my yard.
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