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Invasive worms munch way across Boston area
By adamg on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 11:56am
Cambridge Day introduces us to Asian jumping worms, which are really more like Asian wriggling worms, but in any case are worse for the local flora than all the other earthworms that came over with Europeans. You can recognize them by the white band around them and by the way they wriggle intensely when prodded.
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I think we probably have them in our yard.
This spring I moved a whole bunch of leaves from last autumn's piles into the neighbor's yard to cover some dead plant stems and bare soil, with the idea that the leaves would create a moist environment that would promote decomposition of woodier material, and also just be a groundcover.
A few months later, the leaves are gone! I don't think they usually decompose that quickly.
JP as well
Somebody reported them recently on the Jamaica Plain Facebook group.
Confirmed here in Roslindale
We have these in Roslindale - our planter boxes which we filled with peat enriched soil lost like 4" of soil depth due to these and we caught on which was about 9" and thick as a pinkie finger. Gross!
I also see them when I go out at night and it's warm - when the light hits them, they disappear into the earth but are far more visible. Now that I know they're a problem I'll (ew) have to start killing them.