Tea seed meal, but it is not recommended by most agricultural agencies as it is also lethal to other organisms in the food chain (particularly fish & mollusks) if it gets into the ground water.
If they eat too much it might make your chickens sick. These worms ingest a lot of the heavy metals in the soil. Moles also like them but I don't think you want those. Some people use them for fishing, but what the fish eats, you are going to eat too. Same with chickens.
Something that's been here since the 1800s has only been identified as destructive and invasive in the last 10 years? No farmer or home gardener in the last 150 years was able to identify this worm as a menace, we needed a brave scientist hiding out in an arboreteum in 2013 to point this out.
@@ProlerSkyphetnot only that but they leave behind non nutritious soil which renders the gardens and forests “dead”. Scientists at the land grant colleges have been trying to find a solution but hand picking is the safest way right now. I’m in NEPA and they are a real problem here.
@@Bandaid17 where’s Nepa? I’ve seen some of those videos where they take over areas and mess up the forests.. How do they fare in a prairie system by contrast?
What about hammerhead worms, also from China? We have those, along with these jumping worms.
Spread a "what" meal on the ground?
Tea seed meal, but it is not recommended by most agricultural agencies as it is also lethal to other organisms in the food chain (particularly fish & mollusks) if it gets into the ground water.
It sounds like chickens would help kill them
If they eat too much it might make your chickens sick. These worms ingest a lot of the heavy metals in the soil. Moles also like them but I don't think you want those. Some people use them for fishing, but what the fish eats, you are going to eat too. Same with chickens.
Something that's been here since the 1800s has only been identified as destructive and invasive in the last 10 years? No farmer or home gardener in the last 150 years was able to identify this worm as a menace, we needed a brave scientist hiding out in an arboreteum in 2013 to point this out.
Check out some of the other videos on this jumping worm. It can destroy forest ecosystems because it eats mulch so fast
@@ProlerSkyphetnot only that but they leave behind non nutritious soil which renders the gardens and forests “dead”. Scientists at the land grant colleges have been trying to find a solution but hand picking is the safest way right now. I’m in NEPA and they are a real problem here.
@@Bandaid17 where’s Nepa? I’ve seen some of those videos where they take over areas and mess up the forests..
How do they fare in a prairie system by contrast?
@@ProlerSkyphet north east Pennsylvania.
@@Bandaid17 wild I hope people can figure out how to jumping worm proof ecosystems somehow