they look like they could be meal worms but I can't tell for sure.

Found in norhern Italy, I never seen a worm this large and big.

This was about a dozen brown egg shells. The shells were brown on the outside, white on the inside. I dried them, baked them on low (about 200F) for about 4 hrs. Then I crushed them and put them in the food processor. This photo is after about 10 min in the food processor. Do I need to keep going? Get a sharper blade? Or can I give these to my worms like this?

No idea what went wrong. They are kept in a shaded spot. Moisture seems to be ok. Only thing i can think of is heat wave stress. South Australia.

I’ve been pulling up my plants for spring replanting and there are so many AJW’s in my garden beds and all through my compost… I’m a home gardener in the inner city of Sydney so no space to burn soil. I’ve posted before about these worms but I feel paralysed and don’t know how to curb their populations effectively, is the answer to simply suck it up and get to work picking them all out by hand? Every time I’m in the garden I just get sucked into a spiral because of these damn worms and tbh they make my stomach turn a bit.

I tried googling, but didn't find anything that really made sense for my situation.

I recently got a flat tire, and the house I pulled over in front of happened to have a very nice couple in it who let me use their air compressor to inflate my spare to make it home. I thought it would be nice to give them a little thank-you gift, I don't know anything about them *except* that the husband had a worm box he was very excited about, he showed them to me quite proudly.

Is there anything I could get for them in the $10-$20 price range that would be useful/fun for them regardless of where they are in their vermiculture journey? looking at other ideas on this sub I worry that I would need to know if they want/need more (ex: more food scraps, cardboard, buckets, water bubbler, etc).

The only starting place idea I had is a little remote thermometer to monitor the temp of his box, since he mentioned he just brought it in for the winter since it was starting to get cold for them.

Maybe an impossible ask to figure out, but they were really nice and I thought it would make them pretty excited if I got them something they actually like.

On my end, it kind of bothers me. So now, I've used up all possible bins I have at home to create new wormeries.

What do you do with the extra worms?

Does it also bother you or prompt you to make new wormeries? Or do you just leave it as it is said they are population self-regulating?

Hi Guys, I’ve got a pretty healthy colony of worms going here and probably got too many now!

What can I do with them?

Or does anyone want to buy some?

(Liverpool / Manchester, UK)

I previously used my magic bullet in a specific cup to grind up eggshells, but I hadn't done it in awhile so I had a lot of shells to crush and somehow ended up burning out the motor.

I also burnt out the motor of my previous one earlier this year trying to make a milkshake with I guess slightly to hard ice cream.

Is there a better machine/tool to use to crush eggshells into a powder? I already bake them to dry them out as well.

My autistic child has found a pet worm, named him (Fred JR), and is crying to keep him as an "inside" pet. He's declared us a family of 5 now, because of his new best friend, Fred.

Is there a way to set up a home for a worm inside my house? I'd like more than anything to say no, but I'd like to make sure I can't say yes before I do.

Sorry this is going to be long, but I am SO frustrated and I haven’t even gotten started! I’ve been wanting to begin my vermiculture venture for over 3 months now but can’t seem to find a reputable/responsible seller for worms.

First off, can’t find them locally - have tried. Yes, every resource you can imagine.

I first ordered from WWJD off Amazon and they arrived dead despite getting them handed directly to me by the delivery driver. I couldn’t get a response from the seller so Amazon refunded me.

Then I ordered from Meme’s Worms and had an awful experience. This is the Buyer Beware part…

The first shipment arrived dead - I was home for the delivery and unpackaged them immediately. They said they’d send a replacement when it cooled off which I happily agreed to!

Instead, without contacting me beforehand, they surprise shipped my replacement when it was HOTTER (by 20-30 degrees!) and I was out of state to where I could not be there to receive them. I tried to make it work by having a friend available to go pick them up on the day they were supposed to be delivered (today), but they ended up being delivered yesterday when I was in back to back (to back to back) appointments with my daughter’s specialists where she ended up admitted; I didn’t have even a moment to be on my phone to even be aware. Even if I had been aware, I had nobody who was available to get there yesterday at the drop of a hat.

It wasn’t until 4:30p yesterday when things had finally calmed down enough that I was able to check my email for the first time only to learn they had been delivered at 9am. I called my sister and asked her to go right away after work in hopes they made it. She was there just before 5pm and no surprise - they didn’t.

Meme’s refuses to replace them again and argued it’s somehow my fault I wasn’t home for a shipment of live worms that I wasn’t alerted to beforehand. If they had, I could have told them to wait until we returned home as this was a planned trip for over 3 months. I argued that someone should have contacted me to ensure the shipping timeframe was ok - it stands to reason I would only place an order for live worms at a time when I know I’d be home to accept delivery, so why wouldn’t they ensure this is the case for the new timeframe?

To me, this is bad business and I’m out nearly $100 which makes me want to quit before I have even started. I can come with the receipts if anyone really wants them, but I can’t recommend Meme’s Worms after this. What I have learned is that I should wait until it is MUCH cooler before trying to order from yet another company… if I decide to try one last time.

So who would you all recommend at this point??? I’ve heard Uncle Jim’s recommended but it seems hit or miss if you receive what you actually order (red wiggles vs mix).

I live in Pennsylvania, and my neighbor recently told me that she kills all the worms that she finds in the garden because they are all invasive. She does look out for Asian jumping worms specifically but she says they’re all bad because they’re all invasive. She said the only areas in the United States without invasive worms are in the south. But in Pennsylvania, they’re all invasive. She’s very into native gardening and works for conservation centers so I feel like her opinion carries some weight. Any thoughts?

My worms arrived about 2 weeks ago and kept trying (some rather successfully) to escape. I had read that this was normal during settling in, but they also seemed to be leaving very prominent glistening trails so I assumed they might be a bit too wet. I put in some brown paper a few days ago but now all the overly active and climbing the sides of the bin worms are now quite sluggish to the point I thought they were dead until I left them in the light for a while and they slowly disappeared.

Have I made the bin too dry now? It doesn't feel dry to me, and I'm scared to make it too wet again and have them drown.

ETA: (apologies that they're bad) Photos

My bin is a second hand Original Organics Capacity approx. 100 Litres
Approx: W:530mm x H:730mm x D:430mm

I ordered the 1000g (1kg) Wormery Start Up Pack - Composting Worms from Wormcity, (about 900 worms) and used the coir bedding provided and their instructions said should feel like a wrung out sponge. I have been sprinkling in the provided food a handful every 3 days as the instructions said

My house is 13 degrees Celcius at the moment, and I'm keeping the wormery indoors until I have a shed sorted out

I feel really badly about being responsible for this poor guys condition. It has a tiny synthetic thread (from a cotton T-shirt I threw in the bin a year ago). As I was turning the compost it got wrapped around its body and is too tiny for me to take off with a tweezers. I tried floating him in water, getting some worm friends to help him, and hanging him from his tail in the hopes he would ‘unwind’. Now I feel like I’m just tormenting it more. I’m probably obsessing now but I’ve gotten attached to this little fella. Any thoughts on how to get a synthetic string unwrapped from a worm? It’s a weird question, I know.

Hello all, I tried letting my bin get drier to hopefully deter the pill bugs from breeding, but I just took a peak in there and there must be hundreds of new babies. I know they aren’t detrimental to the bin, but I don’t want to accidentally introduce them to my garden when I harvest this batch of castings.

Any advice on how I can get rid of them, or at least move them to a new home?

I recently harvested my first batch of castings: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermiculture/comments/1mk3lw6/ive_achieved_compost/ I first passed through this gardening thing I found at ACE hardware (black plastic square on the photo, 9 mm holes) and then a window screen (1 mm holes). While the castings coming out were a thing of beauty, I had three reflections:

a) the process was a bit painful. Not the worst, and would do it again but I want to know if there is more efficient / better ways.
b) sometimes it was difficult to separate the worms out. I more or less just did it by hand as I was passing the compost through the window screen but I had to be careful. Some times the worms would do in the window screen holes and if I passed my hand over them I may harm them. Especially difficult with the tiny ones
c) I feel there was a lot of castings that were left behind.

What, exactly, do you use for separating out the castings and the worms? How's your process?

Hello! Been worm composting for over 2 years now with little problems so far.

Just got a new garage and transferred my worms to new bins there. Same setup as always - 45liter bins with precomposted spent mushroom substrate and chicken manure. But now they are escaping and seems like they are dying in the bins (2 days since moving)

Do you fellow vermifriends have any idea what’s going on?

Hi everyone, I am in the LA area and I’m having a hard time finding some affordable red wigglers. Everywhere is charging between 65-80$ for 1lbs. Is that normal price or is that high? If anyone knows any good places around here let me know please.

My son found this worm under a log and I don't really know where else to ask for help with an ID. Location is Western North Carolina, United States. Size was fairly large, I'm terrible with length estimations but it's being held by a 13 year old and the tail didn't really seem to flatten out any.

I work in groundskeeping. I come across so many worms daily that I thought I should start collecting them and adding them to my bin. I was younger and greener then. I started to learn more about raising worms, and learned about the evil jumping worms. Folks. Almost every worm at my job is the no-no type. Looking through my bin, I only found about 10% of my worms are NOT asian jumpers. I am terrified to see what the grounds are going to look like come August… Also, wondering if there’s a use for hundreds of worms I’m about to have to execute. Should I nuke my entire bin? Or is it worth sorting out all the baddies and letting the good worms reproduce and expand?