VIDEO: "Grunting" Vibrates Worms to the Surface

nationalgeographic ^ | June 25, 2009

[Bernard Marx]

My Dad, bless his soul, used a more direct method when I was young, back in pre-PETA times. He pounded a steel rod into the moist ground and hooked it to a car battery. The ‘crawlers shot out of the ground like surface-to-air missiles.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Gary, you might wanna go a bit easier with that frying pan.

[rawcatslyentist]

I've done it by using 110v into two wire electrodes.

The 60hz vibrations make em surface rather quickly.

[Northern Yankee]

My pleasure!

[Northern Yankee]

Now that’s funny!

[Northern Yankee]

I don’t think that you can vibrate that fast.

If you can, I want to see it on You Tube!

So do I!

Cheers back to you!

[llevrok]

So is that why the tennis court get so slippery at Wimbledon when the women play?

[LibWhacker]

Prior to going fishing, we used to do this when we were kids, back in the ‘50s. Only there’s no need to pound a “stob” into the ground and all that. Just stick a shovel into the ground and shake it rapidly back and forth. Worms will start coming out of the ground immediately. And if you do it for five minutes or so, you’ll have a bucket load of them. ‘Course, it’s best to find a shady spot with moist soil.