Worm-Grunting: Luring Earthworms Out Of The Ground (VIDEO)

Exploitative mimicry is the term for pretending you're something you're not for personal gain. One example of exploitative mimicry is called "worm grunting."

Worm farmers drive wooden dowels into soil, then rub grooved metal across them to created a low, grunt-like noise. This noise more or less mimics the noise that a burrowing mole makes -- and that scares worms up to the surface.

See it in action in this video from our friends at Assignment Earth:

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Comments

[cjt1957]

03:32 PM on 04/21/2009

They all need to come up and be exicuted. The earth worm burp is Nitros Oxcide a green house gas over 300 times worse for the environment than Co2....

[JnrNorman]

02:41 PM on 04/21/2009

110v fed to 2 2foot copper rods 10 feet apart will really make the worms wriggle to the surface!


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[tlgeiger62]

01:38 PM on 04/21/2009

While interesting...doesn't this sort of thing result in emptying the supply? I mean how fast do worms reproduce? You can't harvest these areas forever!

[CaptainFailmore]

07:23 PM on 04/21/2009

They reproduce very fast, and can maintain very dense populations that are hard to deplete. You would be very hard pressed to fully deplete the earthworm population on a given site without literally removing all of the topsoil. Most earthworms also reach full size within a year.

In other words, don't worry. We're not going to run out of earthworms until we run out of earth. If you're really concerned though, they're very easy to breed and raise. (Which is what you're probably going to see happening if you're capturing wild worms to put in a worm-composting box, where they eat the stuff you toss in and produce 'worm manure' for your plants.)

[CaptainFailmore]

12:45 AM on 04/22/2009

Further note:

According to a few online sources talking about worm-composting (vermicomposting, as it's called) and earthworm care, earthworms can double their population every two to three months. (Some species are even asexual reproducers.) To put that another way, while it's possible in theory to deplete a site of all earthworms, not only is it going to be very, extremely hard to do so, but if you leave behind so much as a tiny fraction of the worm population at the site, they're going to fully repopulate within a very short span of time.

[pokemon]

10:26 PM on 04/21/2009

Ahhh you took the short bus did'nt you?