They are sensitive to light and sometimes they have a reddish tint to some of the sections on the worm.
Baby red wigglers.
Raising worms called red wigglers eisenia fetida is an uncomplicated and fascinating way to use household vegetable scraps to create vermicompost a compost rich in plant nutrients that you can.
These worms are sensitive to vibrations so its best to feed worms once or twice a week.
I ve been raising red wiggler worms and mealworms for over 40 years.
The worms can sometimes appear to be transparent in color.
Red wiggler worms life cycle and stages can differ for each as factors like a moist environment and overfeeding can either prolong their lifespan or not.
Small white worms in my worm bin help.
These cocoons are round in shape and change color during the development cycle first white then yellow and lastly brown.
There are hundreds of small white worms in my worm bin.
A cocoon will hatch in an average of 45 days and baby worms will need another six 10 weeks to become adult breeders.
To learn more about this worm species you can read further below.
I specialize in red wigglers worm composting.
I ve raised african night crawlers canadian night crawlers and gray night crawlers.
Red wigglers are clear when they are hatching from the cocoon.
However i cannot find a tougher quicker breeding and easier composting worm to raise than the red wigglers in a worm bin.
Under optimum conditions 1 pound of happy and active red wigglers approximately 1000 can create approximately 10 pounds of red worms in about 3 5 months.
These are baby composting worms eating some food in my garden.
It is easy to cultivate a massive worm population in a very short time period.
Red wiggler worms start out as cocoons contains about 4 to 6 baby worms only and begin with the egg stage.
This coloring is a standard shade for the red wiggler hatchlings.
The red wiggler is able to lay 3 3 cocoons a week.
An adult red wiggler worm can produce 2 to 3 cocoons every week and each cocoon can hatch up to 20 baby worms.
They re not maturing and i think they might be killing my red wigglers this is the thought that i had earlier this week when i pulled back the worm bedding in one of my bins and found a tonne of small white worms.