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- When did you start composting with worms?
- April 15, 2009
- How were you introduced to vermicomposting?
- Serching about "regular" composting I've found vermicompost too
- What do your worms like to eat?
- Coffee grounds, kitchen scraps
- What kinds of worms do you have?
- E. fetida
- What worm bins do you use?
- Home made bin
- About Me:
- Student in molecular biology
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Cocoon deposition movie/photos
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Anne Jul 23.
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I had one deposit one on my hand yesterday. I didn't have a camera by me unfortunately. It happens fast... very fast. Blink and they have rolled it off. It looks like a white band when it is rolling. Where the clitellum was is kind of sunken in (u...
Hi, I've seen a lot of photos and some movie of worms mating and babies hatching, but never seen how a worm depose its own cocoon.
So does someone have a movie or some photos of that event?
More precisely, freezing doesn't break molecules, instead the ice crystals break the cell's wall so ehwn unfrozen the "food" is muck more attackable by microorganisms.
Is the same motivation why is recommended to not to refreeze unfrozen food.
I ...
Roots and tubers have evolved to resist in the soil in which are costantly immersed in a sort of bacteria (and other organisms) "soup", so they if leaved intact gets longer to decompose.
As Woo said, try to chop in pieces or froze them so after un...
I usually froze the vegetal scraps before givin' them to worms. I've found that they love the lettuce core wich unfrozen is like jelly, also they eat very fast the internal layer of banana peels (the very external layer stay longer) and apple core...
My concern with this is the extra food rotting. One of the biggest mistakes we make is overfeeding. The worms should survive for a long time just on the stuff already in the bin. I don't think they need extra food. Though putting in extra bedding ...
I'd be interested to know what others think of this idea. Put a normal amount of food in for the kids, then put a thick layer of bedding, then more food and more layers like that. It might get hot or anaerobic in the higher levels if you put too m...
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- At 2:46pm on June 3, 2009,
Susan Bolman said…
- Massimo, just following up on what Strumelia said, here's some info I got off the web.
EFs
Reproductive rate: Approximately 10 young per worm per week under ideal conditions.
Average number of young per cocoon: Approximately 3.
Time to emergence from the cocoon: Approximately 30-75 days under ideal conditions.
Time to sexual maturity: Approximately 85-150 days under ideal conditions.
I don't know anyone who has achieved 'ideal conditions', but this will give you a feeling for the timing of things.
- At 11:40am on June 3, 2009,
Strumelia said… - Yes the timing of babies in your bin is impressive! But likely some of those were already cocoons ready to hatch when you got your worms. I got some cocoons mixed in with my orders of newly arrived worms. :)
The size of your babies tells me they are at least several days old already.
Here is one of my REALLY small baby eisenia fetida/red wrigglers:
http://vermicomposters.ning.com/photo/babywormwaving-1?context=user
Even this one I suspect is a day or two old at least.
- At 11:20am on June 3, 2009,
Strumelia said…
- Very sweet! :D
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