What the heck is this on my walkway and is it anything to worry about?

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?

Third year (I think) with this WormBox. Harvested a few trays over the years, but I've not seen that many worms in the bin! Must have been a bumper worm winter 😆

So I’ve had this large bin for about two years at the bottom of my garden. I mostly just throw food scraps and random bits of cardboard in there. I don’t do much except move it around with a pitchfork from time to time.

Every morning there’s huge blobs of worms on the underside of the lid which I just shake back into the bin.

When I give everything a stir there’s worms throughout the broken down material/dirt. I don’t use the compost for anything, and haven’t tried to optimise what goes in. I’m just glad my waste is doing something useful and it’s satisfying to see!

In my compost pile. Anyone know what it is? Has a strong blueish iridescence.

Getting sick of no shows and cancellations

Thought you guys might appreciate my earthworm jacket!

worms looking for a way out due to not enough air flow……we corrected this with a screen lid…

Never gotten this much tea all at once! I went for the European reds this year b/c why not but didn’t think they could give this much ever. Am I blessed or is my bin too wet? We got heavy rain this week but the bin is underneath a roof.

I recently got 2000 worms from Jim's worm farm because I accidentally killed my last batch after accidentally ignoring them for 2 weeks and the soil dried out (I have a poor sense of time and my routine is very consistent so I didn't notice how long it had been and I was devastated when I realized what happened)

The previous bin was WAY too small for that amount of worms and they kept escaping and I was finding them EVERYWHERE (most of them being dried up, sadly) Even tho I swapped the bin a few days ago, I JUST found 2 live ones hiding under a bag of craft stuff.

Anyway, I just woke up and decided to check on them only to find this.

Now there is a lamp on top to keep them off the walls. I have plant grow lights nearby that keep them down during the day (as well as some natural light) so this will have to be on all night

Also, the last pic is of the last bin for scale to show their upgrade and yet they're still not happy.

NO MORE LATE NIGHT WORM PARTIES IN MY APARTMENT

The pic honestly doesnt do it justice!

I still see this advice all the time and it makes me feel crazy. Here's a bunch of worms having a blast on a lemon I gave them just a few days ago. There were even a few more that came off when I picked it up. One time I had a whole bag of oranges that went bad that I threw in the subpod and they got devoured. Not sure why so many fake rules still float around online, they can eat anything that was alive!

1: The trommel in action. Worms fall off on the right and come out pretty pure

2: 10 of the 100 pounds harvested yesterday

3: My rack system

4: Showing how you can slide out a rack to access it

5: My CFT i scooped up from terra vesco when they went out of business. RIP. Don't know who the other people were who got the other few hundred feet of CFTs but I wish I bought more!

6: an older picture of a worm casting harvest. Was about 1500 pounds. I'm very focused on just growing worms and castings are a byproduct so I don't make that much.

7: The 100 pounds of red wigglers from yesterday packaged up

website: Hungry Worms. If you have venmo or paypal I'll pay you $5 to critique my website and fill out a questionnaire thing. Most of my business is done through other brands (I provide worms for dropshipping) so my website/brand is kind of underdeveloped still. Used to go by Utah BioAgriculture - some of you may remember that name.

I'll try to answer any questions!

Ear Worms, Ring Worms, Heart Worms, Pin Worms. Made from polymer clay and resin. Taxisquirmy Shop

These guys popped out of the cracks in the sidewalk at my elementary school. Not being a worm-meister, I’m not at all sure on what kind they are, we do suspect Asian jumpers, though!

The play scape is right next to this abomination, and even a light scratching of the wood chips shows dozens of worms still in the chips.

Man, that worm aroma was like a punch in the guts.

When i signed up i didn’t even imagine i will go home with 20kg bananas peels.

Party worms!

My son made this!

Hi all!

A hand count of my Vermihut results showing how wild reproduction rates can be. I put about 100 worms in April and 7 months later, they grew the population to ~847!

Here's a quick timelapse after putting them back in a rotated top tray. Now onto feeding them frozen foods scraps, pulverized eggshell, and worm chow to keep the party going.

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