re: Anyone else experience mass earthworm deaths in south Louisiana over the last week?

This is funny as hell. I walked outside yesterday to well over 40 worms on my back patio.

Wtf is going on.

Happened at my house in Madisonville too - figured it was the cold front. My 4 year old son gathered like 100 of them, then came inside and left the pile next to my wife's sink. My wife was not impressed.

I walk my neighborhood and there are thousands dead all over almost every sidewalk

Maybe hammerhead flat worms are taking over

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You can see it happen during the Spring when they breed heavily, but that wouldn't make sense this time of year.

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We've got shite blooming here in GA that shouldn't be blooming due to the warm weather...almost like some of the plants think it's spring, again. Could be what's going on with these earthworms?

The worm invasion happens many times a year here in Calcasieu parish. It often last several days. Some days I have to watch where I step on the driveway in the morning going out to get the paper.

I also have moles [several ???] in the yard and they mainly eat worms.

There was a thread on this a few days ago. Not to be the thread police but just to say yes it’s happening.

Yep all over the place including the my swimming pool

My Pops got me into raising rabbits as a kid. From there we started raising red worms for fishing bait.

Back in those days the local gin had what we called "gin trash" which had remnant cotton and organic debris in it, we also called it mote cotton. It isn't near what it used to these days, though. We had a couple dump truck loads brought in and dumped on the backside of our property behind where we had the rabbits. We let it rot for a year and dug worms for fishing. That's where we got our starter worms for our beds.

We dug them and put them in beds we made from big pallets. We built screen lids that were hinged for them. We used the gin trash, peat moss, and red clay dirt. We put the rabbit manure and cardboard on top of the dirt, and disposed of vegetable scraps in the beds.

The worms we first dug were your average sized red worms, a few inches long. When we got everything right, we were raising regular red worms that were the size of night crawlers, around 6-8" long and about as big around as a pencil.

The worms we raised and sold were, to this day, the biggest red worms I have ever seen. Most people buy starter worms for their beds. We just dug them up.

From around the age of 10 to 18ish I raised rabbits and worms. I had about ten or twelve stores I sold to on a regular basis. I sold rabbits to folks for pets, meat, and feeder stock for snakes. It was all damn good money for a teenager. Over the past couple years I've been considering getting back into it. I'd hate to see what feed for the rabbits costs now, though.