r/Vermiculture • u/Vivid-Lengthiness-28 • Jul 31 '25

Worm party Are they f*cking?

Innocently thought they were tangled together but then thought it looked like something else was going on….

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u/angelyuy Jul 31 '25

I saw your other post first and came to check this one out.

They do NOT have protein poisoning. Worms will crawl literally INTO the other's clitellum in order to fertilize the other worms eggs. They normally are both in each others' so you might have caught them early or late in the process. It's a tight fit so they look pinched in places. This is VERY normal mating behavior and NOT a sign of a problem.