Posted on 04/20/2021 12:06:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Invasive ‘jumping worms’ from Asia are making their way into Midwestern regions of the US and could post a threat to the agriculture industry, experts warn.
The species was first observed in Wisconsin in 2013, but researchers recently found they had spread to more than a dozen Midwestern states.
Although harmless to humans, jumping worms damage plant roots, deplete nutrients and alter water capacity in soil.
Formally known as Amynthas spp, the worm moves at the speed of a snake and shed its tail when threatened.
Jumping worms originated in East Asia and made their way to the Pacific coast of the US in the early 2000s.
They earned the nickname due to wild thrashing when handled and its snake-like behavior of slithering and shedding its skin.
These worms have also been called crazy worms and Alabama jumpers.
Jumping worms live and feed in the leaf litter layer on the soil surface and in the top few inches of the soil, but do not create burrows in the ground.
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Jumping worms are an invasive species.
As their name implies, they jump, wiggle and are very active.
Jumping worms live in the leaf litter and the top few inches of soil on the forest floor.
They change the soil texture to appear like coffee grounds, strip the soil of nutrients and can kill plants.
Prevention is the only known way to manage them.
Jumping worms should be disposed of in the garbage. Do not release them into the environment.
Burn them when you find them.
“I’d like a bowl of the bat soup, but without the jumping worms, please.”
They should call them Jim Jeffords Worms.................
That where all the protein is!...............
As if Murder Hornets weren’t bad enough.
Jumping worms.....Murder Hornets.....Maxine Waters.....
What other shirt is coming down the old sewer pipe?
According to ecologists the most commons earthworm in North America is a an earthworm from Europe.
With modern global trade on fast ships and planes, massive movements of people around the world, and the pet/plant trade Government intervention is a useless work program to keep people busy.
Ain’t globalization grand! Nothing but crap from foreign countries! Equipment and humanoids!
I read on a site where these were being discussed that a 1:1 mixture of water and vinegar can kill them.
I know we have them on our property cause I saw them last year.
I plan on carrying a bottle with a vinegar water mix and squirting the little devils whenever I see one. I just might use straight vinegar.
And keep it off the plants.
It will kill them too.
My chickens would make short work of them
If they are wigglers, they might make good fishing bait too.
Maybe they will eat all of the Asian Stink Bugs
or the Japanese Beatles.
I once poured out a brine that I’d made for smoking fish by my pheasant cages(yeah...that sentence is a disaster) Anyway, I went outa while later and there were thousands of dead red worms. Pretty strong solution of salt and sugar.
We have always been at war with jumping worms from Eastasia.
there were jumping worms in Wisconsin 5 years ago at least
Wait. What happened to the murder hornets?
Shoot ‘em!
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