Collection of Worm Species

Comment by The Garbage Guru on July 30, 2010 at 5:12pm

Keep the pictures coming Pete.It makes it easy to identify worms amongst the wormbins and fish camps!

Comment by roberta Gregson on September 17, 2010 at 12:54pm

Pete, do you have any photos of "springtails" I think that is what they are called??

Comment by Andrew on September 17, 2010 at 1:06pm

Roberta, go to the photo section here and type in "springtails" in the search field near the top left. You can also go to Pete's albums (click "view albums" above) and you'll see his other album is of worm bin creatures.

Comment by Peter Barnard on September 17, 2010 at 10:11pm

Roberta, here's Bentleys photo of Springtails.Springtails.jpg

Comment by roberta Gregson on September 18, 2010 at 8:18am

Thanks for the help, now, when I harvest my VC I get a bunch of little worms, thread like that spring and swirl around, are these springtails? I do have red mites too but not very many. Are the springtails harmful to the squirm or should I not worry about them. The worms seem healthy and are multiplying. what do the springtails do, where do they come from and what do they eat?

Comment by Peter Barnard on September 18, 2010 at 8:35am

Roberta, springtails are harmless and not worth bothering about. Just ignore them.
Sometimes I see plenty, and sometimes there are none. No idea where they come from.
Your threadlike worms could be potworms, though I've never seen one.
Bentley has some good photo's of potworms on his redwormcomposting.com

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