I am in Southern NH and found them in my raised beds 2 years ago. Last year I had thousands hatch and also in my compost pile. This spring I am debating using Tea Seed Meal that is supposed to kill hatched worms. Unfortunately they do ruin my garden as I have sooooo many, all the organic material is devoured by them. Can't keep up
In southern Vermont, multiple year presence. This wet monsoon summer has been a cocoon bank baby boom. I administer a group on Facebook full of panicked gardeners ready to burn their gardens down. I’ve been observing and hunting them for 3 years. Ask me anything.
Just found your channel. That's Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora); often thought to be a fungus. Those Asian Jumping worms have completely infested my property (southern NH). When I walk by the garden the simple vibration of my walking will have the worms literally coming up out of the soil; I'm talking like at least 10 at a time in a 2 x 2 square. They are destroying my soil.
I have these in my garden! (I am in Maine) I did not know what they were until I watched your video and then went down the rabbit hole of google. holy cow! this year my garden has been filthy with worms and i couldn't figure it out. piles of castings everywhere. pull a plant and worms scatter everywhere. my raised beds are covered in castings. I would assume that they came in the composted manure i put on the beds in the spring. According to the articles I read there really isn't anything I can do about them.
There is no mistaking them for earthworms. They get as large as 8 inches in length and are quicker than snakes when they try to escape. Plus they jump.
They will strip out the organic matter in the upper layer of the soil that your plants need to grow, especially shallow rooting plants that we grow in vegetable gardens, so yes they are incredibly destructive. And deceptive, because they leave behind a gritty crumbly black soil that at first glance seems to be wonderful compost-like stuff, but your plants can't pull nutrients from it. It would be great if you added an update to this video with some of the newer research on these worms as it's becoming clearer what kind of damage they do to the ecosystem that is more or less permanent at this point since control is next to impossible and each adult can produce 40 to 60 new worms per season here in the Northeast. That math means one worm can become 50 in a year, 2500 in two years, and a soil apocalypse in three.
I believe I heard that they leave behind 40-60 larva ( is that thr right word???) Five or six times a year. If so the math is worse than you think. Maybe we can "PICK" them out of our raised beds but what is the commercial grower going to do?
People think they jump/writhe with the slightest touch or constantly when moved. They don't always do those things. Seems also they might get 'tired' after a few big squirms. These are never ok to have on the property. they Move!
How interesting that you brought this up. I actually heard of them earlier this year and read up on them. I believe the bait industry is the reason they are here.
Foolish people down south are still growing and selling these across the country as bait worms for fishing and as compost worms, and all it takes is one to escape to the garden they are going to take over. The problem is that their castings are not like what you get from most worms, and plant roots can't use the nutrients that are locked up in them. These worms strip your top layer of soil, where most vegetable and flower roots grow and try to live. They need to be destroyed whenever you find them. In a few more years, when they've spread everywhere else and the damage starts to be noticed more, these will start to be treated like the plague they are.
I feel you need to do more research on those worms. I am in Georgia, and I THINK we got them in a load of mulch. But they are everywhere now. They change the soil consistency to look like coffee grounds. And the plants do not do well in that soil. If I recall correctly they do infact they take the nutrition out of the soil and do eat roots at least on your lawn. Please read more about them, and if you feel you gave some inaccurate info please please please go back and correct it. If what I read is accurate they are not as abundant in the North East as South East but since the worm dies off and the "eggs" ( that's not the correct word but at age 77 I'm having trouble remembering words) live in the soil through winter and in the spring new babies.. Please research it in more depth
What is this new found devilry? All we need is another invasive. And honestly, I think I might have these... my worms were acting weird this year... One of the reasons I finally pulled the trigger on buying the mill was learning my hemlock forest is infested with hemlock wooly adelgid and it'll likely all die within a decade.
Oh great Japanese Beatles now Asian jumping worms were being invaded take them all fishing I bet they would catch a lot of fish glad you did this video now I know if I find them I will discard them to the chickens great video
Please DO NOT USE FOR FISHING. Even illegal in most states. They think that's one way they have moved around so much. They come off the hook or the tail breaks off & YOU just PLANTED a new family err community
Do you know how to kill them? My whole yard is infested with these and I can’t get grass to grow or plants. My yard is so ugly and sad looking. There’s no way I can pick them all out and kill them. I need a solution!
I purchased tea seed meal and plan to use it this spring if I am as infested as I was last year. The sad part is it will kill all the good garden worms as well. I am going to try solarizing the cocoons first so hopefully fewer will hatch and then decide on the tea seed meal. Already purchased and ready if needed
I will be trying this this year. If I kill all the good/bad worms then maybe I can transplant good worms back to my yard. I even have jumping worms in the dirt in the crack of my driveway 😭 My neighbor has a beautiful yard and I don’t want them to get to his grass
@@Hannah10531 Good luck to you. One thing I had to come to grips with is there is likely no chance of eliminating them, control is key I think. But its sounds like you are majorly infested. The adults die with our freeze in NH. Its the cocoons with all the eggs that keep them going and they proliferate like mad. So the fewer adults you have, the fewer eggs you will have
Ya its so hard to find native worms where I live in fact they thought it was gone forever but found some in 2012 30 years after they thought they where gone. Thoughts on how are governments are killing are world with invasives.
I am in Southern NH and found them in my raised beds 2 years ago. Last year I had thousands hatch and also in my compost pile. This spring I am debating using Tea Seed Meal that is supposed to kill hatched worms. Unfortunately they do ruin my garden as I have sooooo many, all the organic material is devoured by them. Can't keep up
Jack great information love learning
God Bless All
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Interesting video already enjoying it
In southern Vermont, multiple year presence. This wet monsoon summer has been a cocoon bank baby boom. I administer a group on Facebook full of panicked gardeners ready to burn their gardens down. I’ve been observing and hunting them for 3 years. Ask me anything.
Please tell me what Facebook group do you administer. My soils & mulch are "crawling with them.
@@chebbytruck8871 just search Invasive Jumping Worms Observation Group
Just found your channel. That's Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora); often thought to be a fungus. Those Asian Jumping worms have completely infested my property (southern NH). When I walk by the garden the simple vibration of my walking will have the worms literally coming up out of the soil; I'm talking like at least 10 at a time in a 2 x 2 square. They are destroying my soil.
Also in the surface area are red wrigglers and other composting worms. Pot snakes - AKA blind snakes move in similar fashion but no white stripe.
I have these in my garden! (I am in Maine) I did not know what they were until I watched your video and then went down the rabbit hole of google. holy cow! this year my garden has been filthy with worms and i couldn't figure it out. piles of castings everywhere. pull a plant and worms scatter everywhere. my raised beds are covered in castings. I would assume that they came in the composted manure i put on the beds in the spring. According to the articles I read there really isn't anything I can do about them.
Never knew they existed. I would have just written then off as being a regular earth worm. Thanks for sharing. Take care, see ya :)
There is no mistaking them for earthworms. They get as large as 8 inches in length and are quicker than snakes when they try to escape. Plus they jump.
Jackie workin the camera in the woods!
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Funky worms man.
They are good in clay soil. It is everywhere in my front yard. Too scary for me to touch.
Now I need to find some to mess with the kids 😄
They will strip out the organic matter in the upper layer of the soil that your plants need to grow, especially shallow rooting plants that we grow in vegetable gardens, so yes they are incredibly destructive. And deceptive, because they leave behind a gritty crumbly black soil that at first glance seems to be wonderful compost-like stuff, but your plants can't pull nutrients from it. It would be great if you added an update to this video with some of the newer research on these worms as it's becoming clearer what kind of damage they do to the ecosystem that is more or less permanent at this point since control is next to impossible and each adult can produce 40 to 60 new worms per season here in the Northeast. That math means one worm can become 50 in a year, 2500 in two years, and a soil apocalypse in three.
I believe I heard that they leave behind 40-60 larva ( is that thr right word???) Five or six times a year. If so the math is worse than you think. Maybe we can "PICK" them out of our raised beds but what is the commercial grower going to do?
People think they jump/writhe with the slightest touch or constantly when moved. They don't always do those things. Seems also they might get 'tired' after a few big squirms.
These are never ok to have on the property. they Move!
How interesting that you brought this up. I actually heard of them earlier this year and read up on them. I believe the bait industry is the reason they are here.
Foolish people down south are still growing and selling these across the country as bait worms for fishing and as compost worms, and all it takes is one to escape to the garden they are going to take over. The problem is that their castings are not like what you get from most worms, and plant roots can't use the nutrients that are locked up in them. These worms strip your top layer of soil, where most vegetable and flower roots grow and try to live. They need to be destroyed whenever you find them. In a few more years, when they've spread everywhere else and the damage starts to be noticed more, these will start to be treated like the plague they are.
I heard they came over in plants shipped in from Asia
I feel you need to do more research on those worms. I am in Georgia, and I THINK we got them in a load of mulch. But they are everywhere now. They change the soil consistency to look like coffee grounds. And the plants do not do well in that soil. If I recall correctly they do infact they take the nutrition out of the soil and do eat roots at least on your lawn. Please read more about them, and if you feel you gave some inaccurate info please please please go back and correct it. If what I read is accurate they are not as abundant in the North East as South East but since the worm dies off and the "eggs" ( that's not the correct word but at age 77 I'm having trouble remembering words) live in the soil through winter and in the spring new babies.. Please research it in more depth
The information I got came straight from the cooperative extension. 🤷♂️
What is this new found devilry? All we need is another invasive. And honestly, I think I might have these... my worms were acting weird this year... One of the reasons I finally pulled the trigger on buying the mill was learning my hemlock forest is infested with hemlock wooly adelgid and it'll likely all die within a decade.
Oh great Japanese Beatles now Asian jumping worms were being invaded take them all fishing I bet they would catch a lot of fish glad you did this video now I know if I find them I will discard them to the chickens great video
Please DO NOT USE FOR FISHING. Even illegal in most states. They think that's one way they have moved around so much. They come off the hook or the tail breaks off & YOU just PLANTED a new family err community
oh gosh I hope you killed them at some point. The eggs get everywhere and can't be seen in the soil
Do you know how to kill them? My whole yard is infested with these and I can’t get grass to grow or plants. My yard is so ugly and sad looking. There’s no way I can pick them all out and kill them. I need a solution!
tea seed meal. I just have been researching because I found some in my garden and this looks like something that works.
tea seed meal
I purchased tea seed meal and plan to use it this spring if I am as infested as I was last year. The sad part is it will kill all the good garden worms as well. I am going to try solarizing the cocoons first so hopefully fewer will hatch and then decide on the tea seed meal. Already purchased and ready if needed
I will be trying this this year. If I kill all the good/bad worms then maybe I can transplant good worms back to my yard. I even have jumping worms in the dirt in the crack of my driveway 😭
My neighbor has a beautiful yard and I don’t want them to get to his grass
@@Hannah10531 Good luck to you. One thing I had to come to grips with is there is likely no chance of eliminating them, control is key I think. But its sounds like you are majorly infested. The adults die with our freeze in NH. Its the cocoons with all the eggs that keep them going and they proliferate like mad. So the fewer adults you have, the fewer eggs you will have
Ya its so hard to find native worms where I live in fact they thought it was gone forever but found some in 2012 30 years after they thought they where gone.
Thoughts on how are governments are killing are world with invasives.
I'm first
One more reason NOT to buy from you know who!
I think I got mine from purchasing composting worms on the internet. They were supposed to be red wigglers