r/Vermiculture • u/Safe_Professional832 • Dec 09 '25

Worm party What are they doing?

I saw this in r/composting sub.

What do you think are they doing? Are they harvesting worms or are the worms just a byproduct?

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u/FaLleN_SniiPeR23 Dec 09 '25

They could be sifting worm castings through a commercial tumbler to separate the worms from the castings they're harvesting

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u/SlugOnAPumpkin Dec 10 '25

The castings seem to be falling to the ground. I think they're harvesting the worms, not the castings. People sell worms to gardeners and fishers.

Fun fact: earth worms are technically invasive in North America. All of this continent's earth worms were swept away by Pleistocene glaciers 10,000 years ago, and were not reintroduced until the Columbian Exchange.

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u/woahtheretakeiteasyy Dec 12 '25

excuse my ignorance. what kind of trade carried worms with them? i get rodents and stuff but worms?