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Winter
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Barely awake in the winter soil are earthworms. I’ve always thought of earthworms as friends, feeding my soil, until I found out most in our area are invasive alien earthworms. We are near the edge of where the last glaciers (about 10 thousand years ago) wiped out the native earthworms. Colonial animal hooves and gardeners brought European and Asian worms in over the last couple hundred years. We continue to spread these alien worms today by moving soil around in bags, planting potted plants and fishing. Usually called “red wigglers,” these alien species of earthworms are used by well-meaning gardeners to compost (vermiculture).
They are also sold as bait and sometimes dumped on the ground by fishermen and women at the end of a day. They have spread into forests and are responsible for the
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