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Originally posted by NightFlight
reply to post by Aleister
You must live in the south. Since we have had the "guests" of fire ants, hardly anything that lived in the soil is there now. They attack and eat everything even yellow jackets. Its hard to find a nest of jackets now to get the drone cake for bream fishing.
Originally posted by SheeplFlavoredAgain
reply to post by hawkiye
Well see, that's what I was pondering too. But we've had that sort of thing going on where I live for about thirty years now and with crazy perfect lawn obsessions in the parts of farmland that turned into suburbia, it's been going on at least fifteen years. So I should be seeing a noticeable shortage of worms, too, and the farmers we have left should be making enough noise about it to make the local press. But I've not seen anything like that. Worms, worms, get your fat juicy garden worms here! There are still loads of worm carcasses after it rains. Just as there were when I was a kid. So something else might be at play that we could be overlooking and need to throw down for consideration. The problem is, the causes across different regions may not be the same even though the problem of a worm shortage is the same.
We do still have birds and lots of bats taking insects on the wing around sunset, despite the chemical bath we idiots are giving our land.edit on 4-2-2013 by SheeplFlavoredAgain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CrashUnderride
I'm in South Central West Virginia is a small town in the mountains and we still get moths and other bugs that flock to lights at night. Trust me, it's a pain in the butt to walk out our back door at night because you have to go through a good wave of them. And some of those suckers are BIG.
Originally posted by SheeplFlavoredAgain
reply to post by hawkiye
What you say seems plausible. But does the act of farming itself with the constant turning and tilling of the soil chase off worms, too? Maybe the modern machines make too much vibration or it is done on a schedule hat doesn't give the worms a chance to return and regroup? I don't mean to keep harping on vibration. It is just that all my life spent digging up bait worms or spending time gardening with my mom and now my daughter, I've come to notice the worms seem uber sensitive to people mucking about in the soil, causing vibrations.