One of the most common worms used for bait fishing is the “Canadian Nightcrawler” or “Dew Worm”. In fact these worms will not survive in typical soil unless it is very rich in decomposing organic matter. While these worms don’t literally live on the surface, they do tend congregate in the upper layers of rich organic matter – NOT soil. In other words, worms you will find when digging in dirt, or will see out on the pavement after a heavy rain fall.Įpigeic worms on the otherhand are the “surface dwellers” – the type of worms that are required for worm composting/farming operations. Anecic worms are the burrowing, soil worms – your typical ‘garden variety’, if you will. The technical terms for the two major groups you will encounter (soil & composting) are “anecic” and “epigeic”. This is mainly due to the fact that bait dealers can often sell both the ‘composting variety’ AND the ‘soil variety’ for fishing – so it’s quite possible that you could have found both. It is quite difficult to say for sure what species of worms you found in the bait containers without seeing a picture, which also makes it hard to conclude whether or not they can live together. That is a good question, and provides me with the opportunity to talk about some of the different types of worms used for worm composting/farming, as well as those that are not ideally suited. Noticing later that there were three different types of worms, my question is will different types of worms co-habitate?” ~ Terry Tyson My son and I went fishing today and several cups of worms were left behind by other people. “I used to have a worm bed several years ago, but I have since forgotten a lot about it.
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